过去几天以来我们都在讨论，我们必须寻求神给我们的特别异象，这是非常重要的，这异象就是透过自己的生命来完成神的旨意。接着我们会问，然后又怎样？一般来说在找到异象后的下一步是看着它死去。为甚么会这样呢？这是有特别原因的，因为我们的异象往往同时结合了属灵的关注和人的想法，所以神要用一种方式来令属灵的关注保留，而把人的想法转变为神的旨意。这方法就是让那异象死去。

这是一个从圣经创世记到启示录都可以追溯到的原则。当亚伯拉罕得到了成为大国的异象以后，这异象在他发觉妻子不育时「死去」了。当摩西被百姓拒绝，被迫逃到旷野四十年时，他所得到的异象也「死去」了。

那么我们会问，为甚么神令异象诞生，又容许它死去呢？原因是：异象死去以后的等待，正是神在我们内心培养敬虔品格的空间。在等待的时候，由于异象的「死去」，好的品格如忍耐、坚毅、持久和自制等就都在我们里面逐渐建立起来。

神过去有没有给你一个你确实知道是来自祂的异象，但现在那异象已经死去呢？如果有的话不需要失望，因为这是神的行事方式，神利用你那等候的时间来改变你对祂的想法，将你的观点改变成祂的观点。

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.