Today I heard an amazing teaching by Bernadette. I think many of you know her. She is an amazing woman and a good friend of mine. So the following wisdom is all because of her faithfulness to hear from GOD.
Think back to science class and the rotation of the planets. The earth is continually rotating around the sun and also on its axis, so throughout the days and different seasons we feel different degrees of its heat and light. But the sun never moves, is continually in the same place.
But from our view on earth it is easy to see why ancient astronomers thought the sun revolved around the earth. But the fact is the sun never moves. It is constant and steady.
This can also be said of our relationships with GOD and how intensely we feel the heat of His presence, passion and calling. When we are standing directly under Him, we can feel Him most intensely. We all have experienced this. Days when we are constantly aware of His being with us, days when we are in His Word, and surrounding ourselves with His praise. It is easy in those days to feel the direct heat of His power. But on the days when we are caught up in the business of life and forget He is always with us, wanting to speak to us, we are not in the direct path of His light. The heat is less intense and harder to recognize. Then come the times when we remove ourselves completely from His heat. This is not to say He isn’t involved or He can't find us, but just like Adam in the garden hid from GOD (Genesis 3:9), we too hide behind our fig leaves. Some of the leaves come in the form of busyness, apathy, rebellion, pride, and the list can go on and on. But whatever we are hiding behind, we are hiding nonetheless. And even though GOD is calling out to us like He did to Adam and Eve, we must make the decision to come out of hiding.
Even when we are hiding from the Son. We aren't hidden; He knows where we are. We just don't feel Him, His Passion, His love, and we certainly can't see the direction He is leading us in.
In addition to not feeling the intensity of the heat of the sun, when we are not standing directly under the it, our shadows seem bigger and more daunting that they are. Again, back to science class. What does a shadow look like when you are directly under the light source? It is an exact duplicate of you. The shadow of your feet and hands are the same as the original. But what happens when you move away from the light source? The shadow gets bigger and more distorted. You move too far from the light and the shadow resembles a disfigured monster rather than a human. Isn’t that also the case for our trials, and all the crap we face in this world?? When we are in the direct communion with the Son, we see the problems for what they are and we can better trust GOD.
Too often though we find ourselves moving away from the light instead of leaning into it. The shadow grows while we feel GOD less and less.
It is our choice to daily, hourly, sometimes minutely make sure we are directly under the light of the Son so our problems are seen as they really are and so we can know we are standing in the direct path of the light.
John 12:46 I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the darkness. (NLT)
Think back to science class and the rotation of the planets. The earth is continually rotating around the sun and also on its axis, so throughout the days and different seasons we feel different degrees of its heat and light. But the sun never moves, is continually in the same place.
But from our view on earth it is easy to see why ancient astronomers thought the sun revolved around the earth. But the fact is the sun never moves. It is constant and steady.
This can also be said of our relationships with GOD and how intensely we feel the heat of His presence, passion and calling. When we are standing directly under Him, we can feel Him most intensely. We all have experienced this. Days when we are constantly aware of His being with us, days when we are in His Word, and surrounding ourselves with His praise. It is easy in those days to feel the direct heat of His power. But on the days when we are caught up in the business of life and forget He is always with us, wanting to speak to us, we are not in the direct path of His light. The heat is less intense and harder to recognize. Then come the times when we remove ourselves completely from His heat. This is not to say He isn’t involved or He can't find us, but just like Adam in the garden hid from GOD (Genesis 3:9), we too hide behind our fig leaves. Some of the leaves come in the form of busyness, apathy, rebellion, pride, and the list can go on and on. But whatever we are hiding behind, we are hiding nonetheless. And even though GOD is calling out to us like He did to Adam and Eve, we must make the decision to come out of hiding.
Even when we are hiding from the Son. We aren't hidden; He knows where we are. We just don't feel Him, His Passion, His love, and we certainly can't see the direction He is leading us in.
In addition to not feeling the intensity of the heat of the sun, when we are not standing directly under the it, our shadows seem bigger and more daunting that they are. Again, back to science class. What does a shadow look like when you are directly under the light source? It is an exact duplicate of you. The shadow of your feet and hands are the same as the original. But what happens when you move away from the light source? The shadow gets bigger and more distorted. You move too far from the light and the shadow resembles a disfigured monster rather than a human. Isn’t that also the case for our trials, and all the crap we face in this world?? When we are in the direct communion with the Son, we see the problems for what they are and we can better trust GOD.
Too often though we find ourselves moving away from the light instead of leaning into it. The shadow grows while we feel GOD less and less.
It is our choice to daily, hourly, sometimes minutely make sure we are directly under the light of the Son so our problems are seen as they really are and so we can know we are standing in the direct path of the light.
John 12:46 I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the darkness. (NLT)
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1 comment:
that was an INTENSE analogy.
i agree.
i appreciate that APATHY is there, cuz i actually use apathy as a hiding mechanism. i'm actually using it right now, which makes it that much more relatable for me.
i love bernadette dude. haha
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