Fast and Furious

So it’s been a bit, took a week break from writing here because I was waiting for the Lord to drop something big for you, and He never fails! The reason for the picture above is because there is a vision I think God has for His church, which we must become humble to. I’m talking tunnel vision for the Lord Jesus in this depraved and fallen world we live in.

Dictionary.com calls tunnel vision, “narrowness of viewpoint resulting from concentration on a single idea, opinion, etc, to the exclusion of others.” Think about it, we need to as the body of Christ concentrate so much on Jesus that everything else in our peripheral view is out of focus and not easy to look at or even see. I think about the movie series The Fast and Furious and am reminded of similar glimpses of what tunnel vision looks like. They would hit their NOS turbo, injecting highly flammable gas into their engines, causing them to run faster and harder than they were the whole race. In that time the driver would have a similar viewpoint as the above picture.

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” MATTHEW 6:33

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” JEREMIAH 29:13

“ ⁹ For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, ¹⁰ so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, ¹¹ being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, ¹² and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. ¹³ For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” COLOSSIANS 1:9-14

It’s promises like these that are our NOS turbo. That accelerate us into full focus of what it is we are to be doing. It’s in this focus that we are to move. I believe that when have our eyes set on Jesus in this way, we will never miss any opportunity He has for us because those opportunities lead to finding Him. For example, Peter gets out of the boat when Jesus walks on water and Peter walks out to him. See he had his full focus on Christ. It wasn’t until he started looking at himself and the things around him that caused him to sink. 

Too many times we let this world and its pleasures cause us to sink. It’s time we refocus our aim! In William Gurnall’s book The Christian in the Complete Armour he states, “so many run and so few obtain; so many go into the field against Satan, and so few come out conquerors; because all have a desire to be happy, but few have courage and resolution to grapple with the difficulties that meet them in the way to their happiness.” Further he writes, “Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.” It’s time we have some Holy resolution and seek after Christ. This resolution will come when we set our whole heart and focus on Jesus. This has to be done in private as much as in public!

 The time is now. We are living in the final hour, don’t miss this Beloved