Vision Destroyers

Isaiah 22:1

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

There are some things that can hurt your eyes that will keep you from having good vision. When I was a child, my parents often told me to look away when someone was welding because they said it would hurt my eyes. They were concerned enough to caution me from that which would hurt my vision because they wanted me to have good vision in life.

There is something worse than losing your physical vision, and that is losing your spiritual vision. Just yesterday, I knocked on the door of a blind man. When I went to shake his hand, I had to tell him I was going to shake his hand because he could not see. Sadly, many have lost their spiritual vision and are like a blind person who cannot see great things that God wants them to see. The burden of the valley of vision reveals several things that will destroy your spiritual vision.

No walls in life will quickly destroy your spiritual vision. Verse 5 talks about the walls being broken down. If you don't have standards to live by, you will find sin will quickly get into your life. The purpose of having standards is to keep sin from getting into your life, which will ruin your ability to have a spiritual vision. Nothing destroys the vision God has for your life more quickly than sin. Sin has destroyed the vision that God has given to many believers. You must set walls in your life to keep sin away if you want to see the vision God has given you come to a reality.

A wrong focus will quickly destroy your spiritual vision. In verse 5, you see the people of God crying to the mountains for help instead of God. Many people have missed the vision God had for their lives because their focus was on the world instead of God. God desires to do great things through your life, but those things will never be realized if you have your eyes on possessions, money, success, or the world. Having your eyes on anything or anyone else but God is sure to ruin the vision God has for your life.

Careless living will quickly destroy your spiritual vision. In verse 9, Israel saw the breaches in the walls, but they didn't care for them. You ought to care about the little things in life. Not caring for the little things is often what destroy lives. It is missing your walk with God a little that destroys your life. It is not caring for the “little” sins that causes them to become great sins. It is not correcting the little character flaws that hurts your ability to become what God wants you to be. It is not caring for your responsibilities a little at a time that destroys a good life. The vision God has for your life needs you to care for those little things that are not corrected. If you treat everything as if it is not little, you will never overlook the thing that will destroy God’s vision for your life.

Self-trust quickly destroys your spiritual vision. In verse 11, Israel did not look unto their maker. The vision God has for your life depends on you looking to God and not yourself. You are a step away from destruction when you think you can succeed without God. Don't become so arrogant and self-reliant that you think you can do what you want to do and still see God’s vision for your life. Many have missed what God wanted to do through them because they trusted themselves instead