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The Vision
So this guy comes up to me and says "What's the vision? What's
the big idea ?"
I open my mouth and words come 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 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
existence.
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 mini-mum 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 loose 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 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! Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules.
Shaking mediocrity from its cozy 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 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 elec-tric 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 DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)
Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centers.
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 di-mension. 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 this is 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 3D.
And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous,
resounding, bone-shaking great 'Amen!' from countless angels, from
hero's of the faith, from Christ himself -
the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
And that, my friend, is Guaranteed.
Reprinted with permission © 24-7prayer.com
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