Glass Box

Perspective. So much can come from that single word. So much can change with the slightest shift in perspective. Revelation comes when we get outside of ourselves and move...when we put forth effort to SEE, to really truly see something new. It doesn't take much effort to change your position. Too often we think that is all that it means to change perspective. This is false. I can move from one place in a room to another place in the room and never see anything different. The problem? I wasn't looking for anything different. If it is true that we find what we seek, then too often we only pretend to seek. We admit, "Oh I am praying about an answer"...are we? What does that prayer sound like? I know sometimes I will begin a prayer...and let it die slowly off my tongue because I fear I am not ready for the answer will be. We think maybe if I change my "perspective" then it will look like I am trying. So we move...we shift and then that's it. What we really need to do is move...then wait, look, seek. Last night I had the opportunity to watch God move from a perspective I have never held before. It was miraculous and wonderful. It was similar to watching a silent movie where you are seeing things happen, watching people's expressions and seeing the emotion of what they are experiencing without being involved at all. I love to watch God move, but most of the time I am close enough to feel God moving, and hear Him moving too. It was so pure and so unrestrained last night. I sat outside on a bench looking in and seeing people's lived change. I could see it on their faces, I know that what God was doing in their lives was so real, it was so pure and so powerful. A part of me wanted to join them, but part of me didn't. I was soaking in the rare experience. It makes me think about my perspective. I have always held a certain perspective of people that don't believe int he supernatural things of God. I suppose you could sum it up to this: They do not understand because they have not experienced. To a degree, this is true. Until I actually sit on this chair, I do not have the experience of it holding me. However sitting outside watching God move in this glass box, I couldn't help but think that for someone to watch what God was doing, even if completely removed from it and to still walk away saying that it was not real is foolish and blind. To deny the power of God or to limit it to a small portion of miracles that happened in a time that they don't have to actually have much faith to believe He did them is absurd. If creation itself proclaims the glory of God, we too ought to be able to recognize when God is moving. And when we fail to, it is merely because we are too stuck in our prideful and fearful ways that we cannot step aside and let God truly show us who He is and what He is capable of. I am glad to say that even if a person has never sat in that chair and never had the experience of it holding their weight...they CANNOT deny that when I sit in that chair, my faith meets the reality of that chair holding me. So, even when you do not think that anyone is gaining anything from you letting God hold you...don't be discouraged. If they deny it, they are merely refusing to see what is so obviously in front of them.