My Life Vision

Leaning wholly on God’s divine power and promises, and realizing that all practical life is an outflow of my heart, I will pursue:

Diligence: I will be proactive in my faith, daily growing in my ability to show myself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling God’s Word and applying it in all ways to my life.

Moral Excellence:  The fruit of diligence, if I am pursuing Jesus, will be moral excellence, and I will do everything possible to plant, nurture, mature, and harvest this good fruit.

Knowledge: I will seek the knowledge of God; I will grow in true wisdom found only in humble acceptance of divine revelation. Realizing that all knowledge is given by the Omniscient One, I will conform even “worldly knowledge” to His reality.

Self-Control: I will shore up gaps in the wall around my heart, denying sin a foot in the door and refusing to be captured by its temporary pleasure and pervasive shame. I will also not overindulge even in the good things God has given me, so that I will not grow sick on what is sweet.

Perseverance: I will persevere through trial and testing. I will not be shaken by the waves of false teaching or doctrines of demons, and I will not take heed of the world’s mocking or persecution.

Godliness: I will strive to use all these pursuits as building blocks to restore the image of God in me, so that I may reflect God in a way that brings Him all glory.

Brotherly Kindness: I will never grow legalistic or self-obsessed in these pursuits, but will in all ways, with humility and sincerity, pass on this living water I have found so that I may strengthen and refresh all believers.

Love: More than that kindness, I will love all people wholeheartedly, even those who revile me. I will seek to give all people a taste of God’s amazing love, so that they might deny the deadness of the world and enter a true, life-giving relationship with the Lord.

This is my life purpose. You are my vision, Oh Lord of my heart. You are my great Father, and I your true son. You and you only, be first in my heart. Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, oh ruler of all!