Eyes

I'm tired of believing the things I see.
I'm ready to see the things I believe!

Too much of life, as people know it, is like a drug addiction. The first few times it gets you high, then you're only doing it to satisfy your chemical dependency. Look at society, it's everywhere. Marriages start with booms of sexual love, fun and even joy. But then 18 years later you find yourself just trying to keep things going. The church or "christian experience" is a prime example. One encounters the Spirit and is blown away by it, so they dive into this "Faith" and spend all of their energy trying to make it happen. Then they "fall" and encounter the Spirit again to get back up. Before they know it, this roller-coaster flattens and it's just a level plain, comfortably dependable. The week is a downslope leading to next sunday. This isn't how it is supposed to be!

We are called to be resurrected with the living Christ into a life that is true life. This wouldn't need to happen if what we were "living" was life already! The new is here because the old wasn't it! So why do we try to put the new things into an old box?!

Life doesn't fit in boxes.

The eye is merely a lens. You don't see with your eye, you see with your mind. Now, with that, see this: The world as you knew it, the life as you knew it, time as you knew it, is merely the truth through two eyes.

The real life is how you see, not what you see.

So open your hearts, and by the renewing of your mind let the Spirit show you what is actually there. The truth isn't what your eyes tell you.

The life we are called to through Jesus Christ is not one we were already living. The things you see will not look the same as before, for your way of seeing must be different. If you don't change your sight, Jesus is going to sound crazy.
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