過去幾天以來我們都在討論，我們必須尋求神給我們的特別異象，這是非常重要的，這異象就是透過自己的生命來完成神的旨意。接著我們會問，然後又怎樣？一般來說在找到異象後的下一步是看著它死去。為甚麼會這樣呢？這是有特別原因的，因為我們的異象往往同時結合了屬靈的關注和人的想法，所以神要用一種方式來令屬靈的關注保留，而把人的想法轉變為神的旨意。這方法就是讓那異象死去。

這是一個從聖經創世記到啟示錄都可以追溯到的原則。當亞伯拉罕得到了成為大國的異象以後，這異象在他發覺妻子不育時「死去」了。當摩西被百姓拒絕，被迫逃到曠野四十年時，他所得到的異象也「死去」了。

那麼我們會問，為甚麼神令異象誕生，又容許它死去呢？原因是：異象死去以後的等待，正是神在我們內心培養敬虔品格的空間。在等待的時候，由於異象的「死去」，好的品格如忍耐、堅毅、持久和自制等就都在我們裡面逐漸建立起來。

神過去有沒有給你一個你確實知道是來自祂的異象，但現在那異象已經死去呢？如果有的話不需要失望，因為這是神的行事方式，神利用你那等候的時間來改變你對祂的想法，將你的觀點改變成祂的觀點。

Now that we have spent a few days discussing the importance of catching a vision of the special contribution God wants us to make through our lives, we ask ourselves: What happens next? Usually, the next step after catching a vision is to see it die. There is a special reason for this: our vision often contains a combination of godly concerns and human perspectives, so God has to engineer a way whereby the godly concerns remain and the human perspectives are changed to divine perspectives. His way of doing this is to cause the vision to die.

This is a Biblical principle that can be traced from Genesis to Revelation. The vision Abraham received of being the father of a great nation "died" when he found his wife was barren. The vision Moses received "died" when he was rejected by his people and was forced to flee into the desert for forty years.

Why, we ask, does God bring a vision to birth and then allow it to die? For this reason: the waiting time in which we find ourselves during the death of a vision is God's classroom for the development of godly character in us. It is in the waiting time, as the vision "dies", that such qualities as patience, persistence, perseverance and self-control are built into us. Has God given you in the past a vision of something that you knew was definitely from Him - but now the vision has died? Then don't be discouraged. This is the way God works. He is using the waiting time to change your ideas to His ideas and your perspectives to His perspectives.