Isaiah 29:18
In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Isaiah 32:3
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Mark 4:9
Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Revelation 2:7
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. [Rev 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13, 3:22, 13:9]
The Words of the Vision.... – By Pete Grieg
So this guy comes up to me and says,
“What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?”
I opened my mouth, and the words came out like this…
The vision?
The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people. You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.
They wouldn't even notice.
They Know the meaning of Matrix,
The way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind,
They belong to the nations,
They need no passport.
People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange exsistance.
They are free,
yet they are slaves
of the hurting and dirty and dying.
What is the vision ?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes.
It makes children laugh and adults angry.
It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars.
It scorns the good and strains for the best.
It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive,
every private conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
This is an army
that will lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day its soldiers
choose to lose
that they might one day win
the great 'Well done' of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.
They...
... don't need fame from names.
Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again:
"COME ON!"
And this is the sound of the underground
The whisper of history in the making
Foundations shaking
Revolutionaries dreaming once again
Mystery is scheming in whispers
Conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground
And the army is discipl(in)ed.
Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms. The tattoo on their back boasts
"for me to live is Christ and to die is gain".
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.
Winners.
Martyrs.
Who can stop them ?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed?
Can fear scare them or death kill them ?
And the generation prays
like a dying man
with groans beyond talking,
with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and
with great barrow loads of laughter!
Waiting. Watching: 24 – 7 – 365.
Whatever it takes they will give:
Breaking the rules.
Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide.
Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs,
laughing at labels,
fasting essentials.
The advertisers cannot mould them.
Hollywood cannot hold them.
Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive (on the inside).
On the outside?
They hardly care!
They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell.
A throne for an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centres.
Don't you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdo's! Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be.
It will come to pass;
it will come easily;
it will come soon.
How do I know?
Because the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very
Dream of
God.
My tomorrow is His today.
My distant hope is His 3 – D.
And my feeble,
Whispered,
Faithless prayer
Invokes a thunderous,
Resound
Bone-shaking
Great “Amen”
From countless angels,
From heroes of the faith,
From Christ Himself.
And He is the original dreamer,
The ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.
-Pete Greig.
