Ecclesiastes chapter 3
Today we are walking in: The Generational Nature of Vision
Habakkuk 2:2
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
VISION
Today we look to the word VISION- H2377 chazown- vision(in ecstatic state), visions (in night), oracle, prophecy (divine communication), vision (as title of book of prophecy) from H2372; a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation, or oracle:—vision. to see, perceive, look, behold, prophesy, provide, to see, behold, to see as a seer in the ecstatic state, to see, perceive with the intelligence, to see (by experience), to provide
The Torah testifies........
Numbers 24:4
He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision H2377 of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
Numbers 24:16
He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which saw the vision H2377 of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
The prophets proclaim.........
1 Samuel 3:1
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days;there was no open vision H2377.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision H2377 and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
The writings bear witness.........
1 Chronicles 17:15
According to all these words, and according to all this vision H2377, so did Nathan speak unto David.
Psalm 89:19
Then thou spakest in vision H2377 to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
The Generational Nature of Vision
You were born to do something in life that leaves nutrients for the seed of the next generation to take root in and grow.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” Like the calendar year, our lives have four seasons, and those seasons must come to pass. The first season is birth and dependency. All of us go through this season in which we must rely totally on outside help, particularly our families, for survival. We need to be taught and trained in what is right and wrong and what is important in life.
The second season is one of independence, in which we capture what we were born to do. We no longer depend on other people to give us a vision for life or to help us survive. We focus in on our own goals. We depend primarily on Yah, yet we rely on the help of other people to provide the resources that will enable us to live out our dreams.
The third season is interdependence. In this stage, we have become so free in our visions that we can give our dreams to other people. We can now pass on our visions to the next generation.
The final season is death, where our lives become the nourishment for other people’s dreams in the next generation.
If people can’t receive life from the legacy you leave when you die, then you really didn’t live effectively. People should be able to flourish on the fruit of the vision you leave behind on earth.
If it wasn’t for their tombstones, we wouldn’t know that some people were ever alive. What a tragedy. You should live so effectively that there won’t be any need for a tombstone to mark your grave because your life will be in the hearts and memories of those who could never forget you or what you did. Truly great people don’t need monuments because we will always remember them. It doesn’t matter if we don’t know where the graves of David or Joshua are. They lived so well that we can’t forget them. If you live properly, history will not be able to ignore that you lived.
Vision gives us assignments that will impact the earth. We must be able to say we have changed the world in some way while we were here and that we have left a mark for those who will come after us. We were born to do something in life that leaves nutrients for the seeds of the next generation to take root in and grow. The fact is, we will soon be gone from this earth. Let’s make the few years we have count! Let’s discover and pursue the visions Yah has placed in our hearts.
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