Do you ever feel like you’re just wandering and hope that
you’re heading in the right direction? To
this day, that’s how I feel when I play chess.
I have always been a lover of board games and I appreciate chess, but each
move just requires so much thought and consideration for what may happen next. You have to constantly be thinking ahead and have
a plan.
Without an idea of where you want to go next, you put your
players/pieces at risk. When we lack
vision and are just “wandering” in chess, we know our chances of winning are not
high. In order to do well in chess, you
must know and obey the rules while also having a vision of where you want to
go. The same can be said of the Christian
walk.
The book of Proverbs offers what I like to call “nuggets of wisdom”. And Proverbs 29:18 offers a little nugget of
wisdom on our plans or lack thereof.
Where there is no
vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Where there is no vision, the people perish. When we go about life without a plan and
intention, we tend to waste time and there is not much hope for the future. For a life well-lived, we must take the time
to determine where we want to go and how we want to get there.
Do you have a strategy; a vision in place for your walk with
the Lord? Or are you wandering aimlessly
and just hoping that your life is “good enough”? If we want to walk more
intimately with God, then we need to make the necessary preparations to get
there instead of hoping and waiting for it to just happen. Without intentionality and action, we become
stagnant.
The second half of the verse states “but he that keepeth the
law, happy is he”. While these proverbial
nuggets are not promises, they certainly offer practical wisdom and tangible
steps toward our desired destination. To
“keep” the law simply means to obey, follow, or maintain. When we keep the law,
our hearts (and therefore our vision) is set upon the right things.
May He be our vision.
