Seeing Things Clearly …
Before he promised us life, Jesus warned that a thief would try to steal, kill, and destroy it.
How come we don’t think that the thief then actually steals, kills, and destroys? You won’t understand your life, you won’t see clearly what has happened to you or how to live forward from here, unless you see it as battle.
A war against your heart.
And you are going to need your whole heart for what’s coming next. I don’t mean what’s coming next in the story I’m telling. I mean what’s coming next in the life you’re living. There are a few things I know, and one thing I do know is this: we don’t see thing as clearly as we ought to. As we need to.
We don’t understand what’s happing around us or to us or to those we love, and we are practically clueless when it comes to the weight of our own lives and the glory that’s being … held back.
We don’t see clearly because we don’t see with the eyes of our heart.
(Waking the Dead by John Eldredge p 18 )
