What do you see?

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May 24, 2016 11:52 AM

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Praying black man

Memory Verse: Proverbs 29: 18 – “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”

The Word for Today devotional by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) says

What do you ‘see’ in your future? What is your ‘vision’? In 1872, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, yet one hundred years later African-Americans were still victims of segregation.

During a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr expressed his vision in these now famous words: ‘I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the State of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream … of that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”’

The night before Dr King was assassinated in Memphis, he told his audience he had ‘seen’ the Promised Land, and even though they may not get there at the same time, they would one day enter it.

If you do not have a vision for your life, ask God for one. And when He gives it to you, pour your life into it believing you’ll live to ‘see’ it fulfilled!

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