Visionaries 1: Vision !

Acts 2:17
"In the Last Days," God says,
"I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people:
Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters;
Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams.
When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit on those who serve me."

So, What´s a vision? It is he act of the seeing, of course, an imaginative perception of things, combining insight and the foresight. But more particulary what we are talking about now is compouded of a deep dissatisfaction with what IS and the clear grasp of what Could BE. It begins with indignation over the status quo, and it grows into the earnst quest for an alternative. Both are quite clear in the public ministry of Jesus
Nothing much happens without a dream . And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement.

But Why then does this prospect not set our hearts on fire? Where are the Christian people today who see the status quo, Who do not like what they see (because there are things in it which are unacceptable to God) Who dream dreams of an alternative society which would be more acceptable to God, and Who determine to do something about it?

We see with our mind´s eye the 2 billion people who may never even have heard of Jesus,
and the further 2 billion who have heard but have had no valid opportunity to respond to the gospel,
the poor, the hungry and the disadvantaged; people crushed by political, economic or racial oppression, the million of babies aborted and incenarated; ad the so-called `balance`of nuclear terror,
We see these things; do we not care? We see what is, do we not see what could be?
Things could be different. The unevangelized could be reached with the good news of Jesus; the hungry could be fed, the oppressed liberated, the alienated brought home. We need a vision of the purpose and power of GOD.

David Bleakley writes about such a visionaries,
` The people with a "hunch" alternative, those who believe that it is possible to build a better world`. He call them `Pathfinders`, WHO ARE LOVERS OF OUR PLANET, who feels a responsibility for Gods creation, and wish to give true meaning to the lives of all his people`Indeed He is confident, as I am, that such `Pathfinders represent a growing ground-swell of change in our society and in societies elsewhere`