#WordForTodayDevotional
Sunday May 12, 2024
THE PERILS OF VISIONLESSNESS
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
Let us see several Bible translations of Proverbs 29:18. NLT says, “When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.” Easy-to-read Version (ERV) says, “If a nation is not guided by God, the people will lose self-control, but the nation that obeys God’s law will be happy.” GNB says, “A nation without God’s guidance is a nation without order. Happy are those who keep God’s law!” The Passion Translation(TPT) says, “When there is no clear prophetic vision, people quickly wander astray. But when you follow the revelation of the Word, heaven’s bliss fills your soul.” CEV says, “Without guidance from God law and order disappear, but God blesses everyone who obeys his Law.” Let’s collate these translations cited. What it is all about is that without vision, you perish, run wild, lose self-control, exist orderless, wander astray, and experience the disappearance of law and order in your life. I think these different translations have given us in details the dangers of living without vision. This perish is both in time and ultimately in eternity. It is vision that makes you keep eternity in view in your day to day operations. That is why perishing is inevitable without vision because just like New Living Translation (NLT) tells us, you would run wild. You will begin to live like every other person, “let us eat and drink, tomorrow we die.” (see Isaiah 22:13). You can run wild into alcoholism, pornography, sexual pervasions of all manner, squandermania, and all manner of unprintable addictions. All these are the product of lack of visions, people running wild.
Without vision, people lose self-control. In career, business, family life and in spiritual life too, losing control is inevitable without vision. Imagine someone that opened a shop and by 10am, he/she is still sleeping at home. That is the manifestation of lack of vision. It is only a matter of time, before, he/she folds up and blame the witches in his/her father’s house and some fake prophets will help him/her to name it. But the bane of his/her life is not any witch, it is lack of vision. New King James Version (NKJV) says, “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.” The Word restraint is another word for discipline. Without vision, you will cast off restraint in all sphere of life. It is vision, that makes you to stand on your toes even when it is not convenient. Life of convenience is actually a life without vision. It is vision that brings discipline to your life.
The Word says, let everything be done decently and in order (see I Corinthians 14:40), but without vision, you will be without order (GNB). Your life will be without order. That means chaos will be the norm in your life. Without vision, you will wander astray. But why should you live without vision, when you can get one from the Lord? Selah!
REMEMBER: Without vision you perish, cast off restraint, run wild, lose self-control, exist orderless, wander astray, and experience the disappearance of law and order in your life.
CONFESSION: My life is ordered by vision. I am so focused so much that all the gates of hell are in trembling. I am poised to make my heavenly proud He sent me in this generation. Halleluyah!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: Your days of existing without vision terminates today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
FURTHER READING:
Acts 9:1
ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
1 Samuel 20:1-21:15; Luke 8:1-18
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