Hold the Vision

What would it mean for you to keep moving toward a world without exile?

Psalm 144:13-14

Then our barns will be full,

With every kind of provision;

Our sheep will be in the thousands,

And the tens of thousands in our fields.

Our chieftains will be firmly established;

There will be no exile, no cry of distress in the streets.

A world with no exile and where there are no cries of distress in the street… It is a vision that feels far away from our current reality. But do we lose the vision for that world when everything points toward the fact that things are going in the opposite direction?

Do we lose hope?

The answer, I think, is no. There is a case for hope here. For holding the vision closer.

Close to our hearts, which moves us toward it. Our actions, whether small or large, on a local scale or beyond, they let that hope ripple outward. It’s all forward movement when hope is coupled with action.

Declaring it’s impossible, though, that’s what causes us to stop. That’s what lets injustice continue.

The psalmist didn’t dream small. Full barns. Thousands in the fields. No one in exile.

Let’s hold the vision.

What would it mean for you personally to refuse to stop, to keep moving toward a world without exile even when it feels impossible? What does that mean in action?

— Amanda Creek

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