Clearer Vision

jus wondering...how each blogs gets linked up so nicely....haha.
look at my previous blog title....if you can get what i mean. :)

So, to Martian & Venusian: good things need to wait one...hee. ( jus an "excuse" la..;p )

i got a new specs today. waited very long for it...finally! hee, tks to our Govt for the ERS.
another new thing to record for this year. nothing "spectacular" tho, but it's still a new change to me. Coz i had my old specs for so so long that i wldnt want to mention at all..hee. ( since my schooling days...)

BUt something i discover though.
i really need a clearer vision.
when i exchanged the old for the new, wow! what a difference it made. i didnt know that all along i m living in blur vision with my old specs. tho i still survived, it was not as clear as my new specs. i see clearer and more details now.
this brought me to know......
in life, there is a need to have a clear vision. One that motivates me to go on, perservere on and strive on despite whatever storms or circumstances life may bring.
i still remember i once ask God for a personal vision years ago. He showed. Though now i cant really share out the details of it all, i would keep it within my heart for tt day i could share it out. All by His grace.
"without revelation (vision) , man will perish...." how true it is. What would it meant if man on earth do not know why they exist? the reason for their being and living for? was it a mere simple process of being born and died and decompose into the earth? what on earth am i for?

found this meaningful in a book-The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren)
Poem by Russell Kelfer - ( sandy: here's another russell.....and this one is a poet. haha.)
You are who you are for a reason
You're part of an intricate plan
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
Called by God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together withinh the womb,
you're just what He wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones He chose,
and no matter how you may feel,
They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And they bear the Master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart,
So that into His likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
You've been formed by the Master's rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God!

Getting the new specs just once again reminded me it's so important to have a vision in our lives, one that will impact eternally.
And it does matter which lenses i put on to have this clear vision?
one of my own desires? or one with God's lenses?
i know, mine would be so short sighted and narrowed, sometimes, self-centered.
God's lenses sees through all. the whole picture in His perfect plan.
well, the answer is clear. To put on His lenses to have a clearer vision!
God, i will try. i will persevere on. i will hang on there. Till i see the vision You have for me to come to pass. that day, it'll be a shared joy i will have with God. All by His grace.

"the man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder --- a waif, a nothing, a no man." Thomas Carlyle