we live in an illusion. our viewpoint is exactly that- a view from a point. everything we see is not actually as we see it. take, for instance, air. we know it's there, but it's clear, we can feel it, we can see the effects of it- but our eyes cannot distinguish it. the movement of air has the potential of being a calm breeze or a devestating hurricane. yet our primary methods of testing the movement of air resides in wind guages to tell us the direction and anemometers to tell us the wind speed. for decades, scientist have known the gaseous makeup of our atmosphere. meteorologists have predictive technology based on scales and numbers from previous storms, but no one can tell you what will actually happen next. hurricanes are a prime example. dennis was supposed to devestate the florida keys and rip up the tear up the midwest; but by landfall it was barely a category 2 storm. emily is heading towards the yucatan peninsula as a category 4, but will it stay that way? well, only God knows. (just so everyone knows, my heart goes out to those whose property was damaged by dennis and i am praying for those who are staring at emily).
in a previous post, i said that our perspective is skewed- that we don't see what God sees. but in this post, i want to take the concept a step further...
if you eat an apple and save a seed, what do you have in front of you? go ahead, look at the seeds in the photo, what do you see?
to the physical eye, you will see apple seeds... now look deeper... open up the eyes of your heart and you will see a tree. on that tree are more apples. inside of those apples are more seeds which contain the beginnings of more trees, which in turn have more fruit. that one seed that you started looking at contains an orchard.
in a previous post, i said that our perspective is skewed- that we don't see what God sees. but in this post, i want to take the concept a step further...
if you eat an apple and save a seed, what do you have in front of you? go ahead, look at the seeds in the photo, what do you see?
to the physical eye, you will see apple seeds... now look deeper... open up the eyes of your heart and you will see a tree. on that tree are more apples. inside of those apples are more seeds which contain the beginnings of more trees, which in turn have more fruit. that one seed that you started looking at contains an orchard.we see ourselves through our eyes. we think we're only one person and that we cannot have an impact on the world because of our imaginary solitude. habakkuk 2:3 says, "for still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end- it will no lie. it it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay."
dr. michael brown wrote it this way in his book revolution!: the call to holy war, "we are accustomed to seeing revolts in the church (in a holy sanctified sense). we say 'enough is enough!' we become restive, getting more and more hungry and thirsty for a fresh visitation from heaven, fed up with business as usual in the house of God. we begin to despise the way we have been living, disgusted with fleshly addictions and entrapments, sickened by our lack of effectiveness in reaching the lost and in seeing them set free. and for a short time we have a breakthrough. we cast off our bondage of sin through the power of the blood of Jesus and we begin to bear fruit for Him. even some lost sinners are saved.""but then it ends. why? because it was a revolt, not a revolution, a momentary expression of dissatisfaction, not a determined revolution. it lacked long-term vision and was devoid of a strategy that would say, 'whatever it takes, whatever the cost or consequences, we are going to see the purposes of God fulfilled in our lives and through our lives. we are going to follow the Master's battle plan and make disciples of the nations, proclaiming liberty for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind. we are going to set the captive generation free!"
for the world-wide renown of His sovereign glory...
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