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Hi, welcome back to Verity podcast. I'm Felicia Masonheimer.

I'm Erasmian Josh.

And we are in the very last episode of the Honest Marriage Series, episode 12.

And I can't believe we're here already. That's three months worth of podcast episodes.

We're recording this right after Christmas before new years. And so it's a little bit late

going up because of the holiday, but we're so glad that we squeezed it in before we wrap up the

year. And in this episode, we're talking about growth as a couple and what Josh and I do to grow

as a couple to stand the same page and to keep a vision for the future. We thought this would be

a good way to end the series and hopefully give you something practical you can try out in your

own marriage as you were going forward. So we are going to be looking at our verse for this

episode in Proverbs. It's Proverbs 29 18, which says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people

cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Now, obviously in context, this is talking

about prophetic vision. So in the Old Testament, a prophet giving the word of the Lord,

the revelation of God that cast a vision for Israel at the time. That's the context of this verse.

Another translation of this verse is where there is no vision, the people perish. I think it's

interesting that in the ESV, it says people cast off restraint, but the end result is that they perish.

Either way, a Christ-centered vision for the future is the only way to remain in godliness,

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