A dream or vision is so important it cannot be over emphasized, without one life becomes mundane and a boring routine leading to nowhere, individuals and entire nations loose zest and enthusiasm they have nothing to motivate or constrain them, they stop to aspire and settle for the present.
About 350 years ago a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast
coast of America. The first year they established a town site. The next year
they elected a town government. The third year the town government planned to
build a road five miles westward into the wilderness.
In the fourth year the people tried to impeach their town government
because they thought it was a waste of public funds to build a road five miles
westward into a wilderness. Who needed to go there anyway?
Here were people who had the vision to see three thousand miles across
an ocean and overcome great hardships to get there. But in just a few years
they were not able to see even five miles out of town. They had lost their
pioneering vision, their ability to dream again. With a clear dream of what we
can become or achieve, no ocean of difficulty is too great. Without it, we
rarely move beyond our current boundaries.
Beloved, what then is a dream? This is how Bob Logan described it
“Vision: the capacity to create a compelling picture of a desired state of
affairs that inspires people to respond; that which is desirable, which could
be, should be; that which is attainable. A good vision is right for the times,
and right for the people. A good dream promotes faith rather than fear. A good
vision motivates people to action. A good vision requires risk-taking. A good
vision glorifies God, not people”
