Enlarging Our Vision

                                                 

At approximately 1 AM Thursday morning the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me about the need for Christians to begin seeking out and focusing on Scriptures that reveal what the Lord Jesus Christ wants to take place, specifically with the body of Christ. For many Christians this will take a renewing of the mind, but will be well worth it.

It is true that all Christians need certain parts of Scripture for personal encouragement as well as for assurance that our legitimate personal needs will be met. But the Spirit emphasized that we must enlarge our vision and look beyond ourselves.

Jesus definitely cares for our individual needs, but wants us to cast those cares on Him and become focused on things beyond ourselves. In seeking first the kingdom of God and working to help build and unite the one body of Christ, we would be working in harmony with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit said that in doing so we would be positioning ourselves for our personal needs to have a better opportunity of being met. This would not be our prime motive for doing so, but would be a by-product of being about the Father’s business.

Let’s enlarge our vision! Let’s truly deny self and take up our cross and together follow the Lord Jesus Christ and cooperate and work with His Spirit to bring God’s kingdom and will on earth. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.