What Do You See?

Day 27 Doxology: When we look...what do we see?  I am under the impression that we often see what we want to see.  Sometimes there's more than meets the eye.


My personal plug is this...I was jogging back from doing stadiums. You know, a thankless run up while trying to breath going down.  Before you know it, both your legs and your breath is gone.  So, I was jogging back from this traumatic event when I noticed today's doxology.

It's beautiful isn't it.  This image of the moving water makes you almost think you can hear it.  The contrast of the green grass against the water moving over the rocks looks like it would make an even greater black-and-white and seem as if it came from the Great Smoky Mountains.  I didn't have the advantage you have...I was able to see the whole picture.   Ironically, that is what looking for God during Lent allows you to do-see God in the plain and ordinary depths of our life.

If you back the image up, one can see the surroundings that seem to take away from the beauty that was once observed.  What if we recognized God's beauty in everything first?  Would it change the way we see the world? You see...I believe if you never look for God, you'll always see a big ugly, beat-up, drainage pipe just carrying water in life. If that is your view...life becomes boring and gray!

As Christian, we are called to look beyond...to look deeper...to see God's beauty in creation.  Here is the 25,000 dollar question...are you looking for God in the world, or do you walk by God everyday and miss many doxology moments?  They are yours to see!

John 1:10 says, "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."