Set the Sails! Sail to the Horizon! What's in your Vision?

Setting Your Gaze to the Horizon

What will I do in 10 years? Will I be in a big church? Will I be a pastor? Will I be happy? Will I be energized? Will I have a wife? I hope I’ll have a wife…

There are questions upon questions about what your life will be like. Although I don’t think it’s healthy to overly worry about your future as Matthew 6:25-34 conveniently teaches, I do believe it’s good to set goals for your future. It’s good to have your eyes set on something, It’s good to envision what you aspire to be, its good to have vision for your life. It can be easy to get lost in the monotonous waters of daily life, sometimes to keep you moving you need to set your gaze upon the horizons to sail out towards your goal.

The Need For Vision

I speak from personal experience when I say that it’s easy to lose motivation from living life without a goal in sight. If all you see are the same waters, day in and day out, it can appear as if you are sailing nowhere. Although it could be just as bad as setting impossible goals for yourself, I think it’s important still to have goals to live by in order to push yourself to move forward; especially in times of hardship.

I believe vision can come from where God is leading you in your life. If there is one thing I’ve learned about God this past year, it is that God is always speaking, even if He appears silent. There are always doors opening and closing, nudges in your heart, people acknowledging or disproving your thoughts, the leading of the Spirit through scripture, and so much more. God is always leading us in directions and giving us vision for life. I think it all comes down to a matter of whether we are willing enough listen and see the vision and direction God is bringing to us.

My Vision

Currently I feel that God has given me a vision to use the interests, and hobbies he gave me to do something radically different with ministry. There are many times where I feel dissatisfaction with regular church ministry and the memorized responses of “trained” church children. I envision a landscape inside the church that takes a person’s heart and shows them how to use it to live for God. I am greatly challenged by people like Shaun Hoover and his ministry "Calling All Skaters" who took the passion for Skateboarding and used it to spread the gospel all over the world. He has taken the thing that makes Him happiest, and used it to do the most fulfilling thing on Earth, serve God.

Maybe I’m too idealistic. Maybe I have an improper theology of work and the need to die. But as of this moment I feel that my vision is to pioneer a ministry in which people can take their God-given passion to serve the giver of their uniqueness. Of course chasing the vision will involve failure and success, but I follow where I feel God leads me, and this is what brings passion to my heart. Although I don’t know too much of where I need to go at the moment, I do know that God has opened many doors for me to surf, and skate while serving in ministry. I also know that God has given me a fond passion for empowering Youth to live out their talents to serve God.

So what my future holds, I’m not quite too sure. But I do know that God is leading me towards a certain path, and I envision that as I obey God’s leading my life will be filled with fulfillment and joy in serving God with what I was created to do.

“ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Ephesians 2:10

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