The signposts along the way measure more than mere miles. To our generation the phrases may be familiar but the values they proclaim seem topsy-turvy. They challenge fundamentally so much of what we take for granted. Blessed are the mighty because they will become more powerful yet. Our Lord says, as pilgrims seeking to embrace his values we need to follow a very different path.
Vision is the ability to see ahead.
If you ever meet a British admiral in full dress you will note that he carries a telescope. It is strange that he does so in these days of radar, information technology and so on. And Christian leaders require a different kind of telescope in their knapsack. It is vision. Where there is no vision, the people perish says the book of Proverbs.