Well, one of my favorite passages in Scripture is Proverbs 2918. And I of course, I learned it. I'm an old man now. And I learned it when I was a kid from the King James Version. And it says there where there is no vision, the people perish. But he that keepeth the law. Happy is he. And I always have gone back to that verse where there is no vision the people perish. And the importance of having a vision, but it's always been on a personal level. There's so many people today and is that don't have a vision for their lives. They're just living day to day. And there was a real sense in my life, that God had a purpose for my life. And there's a vision I needed to, to find it for my life. And that was always comforting and a good thought. And I think it's part of what has put me in a certain direction in my life of always praying and asking God to show me what he wants me to do and saying, Lord, I'm willing to go anywhere and do anything for you. But this morning, I came to that, that verse in my reading. And I thought, Well, I wonder what these words mean. Because I've never done a study of the Word. So I looked up the Hebrew word for vision. And it means Revelation, a communication from God to be communicated to others. So, okay, that word vision is a little bit different than I thought. It's basically a revelation from God. Are God revealing? himself. And of course, he doesn't just reveal himself personally to us, He has revealed Himself through the scriptures. And he's revealed Himself through His works through creation. And he's revealed Himself through our being made in the image of God. So God has communicated to us, not just to us personally through the still small voice or the speaking of the Holy Spirit, but he has spoken to us about his existence and about reality, through revelation. And then it says, without the revelation that people will perish. And this word I've just normally thought of, well, you just sort of fade away you, you, you know, life doesn't go anywhere. But I looked up this word, and it's the Hebrew word that means to be out of control. perishing is being out of control. To have a mob or group that has no restraint in its activities. It implies open defiance of a known standard or authority, to be unrestrained to be lawless kind of rebellious, to be rebellious and lawless to cause disorder and promote wickedness. This is a profound word, to promote wickedness. And we do that at every turn today, there's the promotion of evil, evil is considered good and good is considered evil. We're promoting today. mutilation of children, that is evil, but it's being promoted, it's seen as a good why? Because we have no revelation that people in Western culture particularly have cut themselves off from the one who reveals from God, yes, we are proudly, atheists. We don't believe in Revelation, anything from outside the natural world. So what will this lead to? It will lead to perishing, it'll lead to more specifically being out of control, to lawlessness to disorder, to be unrestrained, whether it's personally or culturally. And this just overwhelmed me this morning, as I was diving into these two key words. And I haven't had time to look at the second part of the verse. But Happy is he who keep with the law, living within the boundaries of God's order, living within his laws and ordinances that he has established. There is where we find happiness. We don't find happiness, in license in rebellious SNESs. We think we do if I can do whatever I want to do without consequences. I'm going to be happy. No, we're not going to be happy. There are consequences for this. turning our back on God on the concept of an external revelation. And it leads ultimately, to disorder, chaos, and even the promotion of evil. Those were the thoughts that I was we're going through my mind this morning, and we started talking about them during our Monday morning, share and prayer share