What Do You See?

It’s the age old problem, two people witness the same set of circumstances and come up with stories that don’t sound like the true story. The classic sit-com scenario where two characters whitewash their story because obviously they are the victims in this story. They tell the sanitized version to make them look like a saint while the other character is the villain. Neither of them telling the truth fully, somewhere in between the lines, the truth will be found.

People can only see what they want to see, so what is it that you want to see? A great question for your life.

Psalms 18:25-26 speaks about these matters in terms of what we see when we see God… “To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.”

As with a lot of things in life I think we project on to others what is true about ourselves. “It takes one to know one” is our childhood line. What I see in me is the only thing I can see in you. Our mistrust in, or accusation of, God is simply the act of placing the quality of our character over how we perceive God. It’s hard to see clearly through sin-stained glasses .

From the book (Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice) our church is about to engage here this fall… “To the person who is not inwardly transformed, evil and sin still looks good. But sin looks foolish, ridiculous and repulsive to those cleansed by Christ… a precious truth about what is good and right.” What do you see? What would you see with a heart transformed by Christ?

Famous lyrics from back in the day… “Looking through rose-colored stain glass windows, never allowing your world to come in, seeing no evil and feeling no pain, making the light as it comes from within so dim.” -Petra

What lense are we looking through? How confusing is our day when so many lenses are offered? God’s lense is the only one that counts and aligning our sights with what He has expressed through His Word is the only way to avoid the confusion running rampant in our world.

What you and I make of God’s Word is never as important as what it would, if we’d let it, make of us!