commentary: Vision (Part 2)
Have a Plan and Stick to It
John W. Ritenbaugh
Given 30-May-09; Sermon #940c; 11 minutes
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John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on Proverbs 29:18 about lacking vision and the grade school game of dodge ball, suggests that the pace of life has picked up so drastically that no one could have been prepared for the changes. Today more people speak English in China than anywhere else in the world, putting China in the driver's seat on the information highway. Billions of Google interactions are made each day; more information is presented in one week's New York Times than could possibly be assimilated in a lifetime. Information is being shoved at us at a lightning quick speed, leaving us helpless in regard to making sense of any of it. We need to protect ourselves from this toxic information overload by keeping the vision of our calling in front of us, living for the future. Young people in Israelite nations are preocupied by computer games while Asian teens are outstripping them academically. We cannot be distracted by the enticement of entertainment, making ourselves virtual stimuli gluttons, while ignoring the impelling vision of our spiritual calling.
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Did you know? Dodge ball Information overload Seriousness Top ten
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