Desperately Needed Vision for Every Day

By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood

I got my copy of Eternal Perspectives magazine in the mail last week, and there was an article by Randy Alcorn that gave six eternal truths to remember each day.

To me, these truths spelled VISION. And vision is what we all desperately need in order to keep on keeping on in the mundane of every day life. I’m going to give his main points (in my own paraphrase), and I’d encourage you to go to his website and sign up to get his stuff. It’s always excellent.

Unless we live in the reality of the following six truths, we will walk through life totally blind. We’ll see the shadows around us, but we won’t be connected to what is really real.

Heaven and Hell

Every single one of us and all the ones we love will go to one of these two places when we die.

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14)

We Aren’t Home Yet

Life is a vapor. The older I get, the more freaked out I feel as that reality seeps into my consciousness. I remember my 16th birthday like it was yesterday. But it wasn’t. It was 30 years ago. My kids are on the cusp of adulthood and all that entails. My hair is grey, my eyes have crows feet, and I’m getting a bunion on my left foot. Bizarre. I’ll be dead soon. More bizarre. And yet that has always been the reality; I just didn’t want to see it.

 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! (2 Peter 3:10-12)

What I Do on the Dot Affects the Line

Our lives on earth are like a dot and eternity is a line that goes out from the dot and keeps going…forever. We have a short dot of time to do what God calls us to do in order to impact eternity. The really cool thing is that it’s like a drop on water. The drop is small, but the ripples expand and move outward forever. The results are exponential – for good or bad.

That staggers the mind.

What am I doing with my dot?

Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done. (Revelation 22:12)

Care What the Woodcarver Thinks—Not What Wemmicks Think

Don’t know what a Wemmick is? YOU are a Wemmick! You can read about yourself HERE. If you already know and have embraced your Wemmickness, then you just need to remember that the opinions of other Wemmicks are, well, silly. The opinion of the Woodcarver is pretty important. He runs this universe, after all.

Live for Him, not Wemmicks.

So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. (Romans 14:12)

The Woodcarver is Working All Things for Good, and We Can Trust Him

Life on the dot is ridiculously hard sometimes, isn’t it? The story isn’t over, but when it is, we’ll “get it.” Until then, we need to hang on for the ride and trust our Maker. We are precious to Him.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,^[a] for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

One Day We Won’t be Wemmicks Anymore. We’ll Be REAL. And We’ll Be HOME.

That’s our destiny. That’s our reality. In light of our inheritance in Christ Jesus, we can live noble lives of joy as we rest in the hope of our future Home.

But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:13)