Read Ephesians 3:15-21

     The records of history are filled with amazing statements of men whose vision was clouded on some important issues…

             On world population:  “The population of the earth decreases every day, and, if this continues, in another ten centuries the earth will be nothing but a desert.”  (Montesquieu, 1743)

             On anesthesia: “The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera.  It is absurd to go on seeking it today.  Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient.  To this compulsory combination we shall have to adjust ourselves.” (Dr. Alfred Velpeau, 1839)

On aviation: “The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.” (Simon Newcomb, 1903)

On the atomic bomb: “That is the biggest fool thing that we have ever done.  The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.” (Admiral William Leahy to President Harry S. Truman, 1945)

     Though these men were well meaning, they just didn’t seem to see things in the right way.  Their sight for the future was distorted by the seemingly impossible circumstances of their era.  They looked at the natural world and concluded that certain things were just not possible.  As we consider their words today, be admonished not to look at the spiritual world and conclude that certain things are not possible, for, with God all things are possible.

     As we gaze into our futures, we need to have 20/20 spiritual vision.  We need to pray together that in the midst of our walk with God, our families will be experience a unifying power of seeing and believing God for something that is far beyond the imagination.