We're chickens laying on our stomachs with a line of sight limited to what's in front of us.

Chickens

An elementary school kid has a limited view of the world and his role in it. If you ask them about matters of human existence they will probably speak of a playground and dinosaurs and fire-trucks. Their view of things is quite limited.

A circle does not understand the concept of a cube. If you were to present the idea of a third dimension to a circle, it wouldn't have the mental capacity to wrap its mind around the idea of a third dimension. It's view of reality is quite limited.

If you told the elementary school student why he needed good grades and why that is more important than recess, they wouldn't understand to the extent you do, for life as they have experienced it is veiled. Their view is quite limited.

If somehow you were able to explain to the the circle what a third dimension could even be, he wouldn't really get it, it's beyond his perceptual understanding of existence. His view is quite limited.

If you were to talk to a human about Godly matters, he'd think he got it because he's an arrogent prick, but he wouldn't. His view is quite limited.

My point is this: Realize where you stand in the stories. We are created beings. The creator MUST know more than us about the flow of things and what is actually important. If we are working with two dimensions, vertical and horizontal, He is seeing the third one. If we are elementary school kids focussed more on recess and less on development, he is the parent desperately trying to make life for their kid better than their own was. Instead of wasting time showing people how good we are at the monkey bars; a hopeless effort to get girls to chase you- but not actually tag you because that would be gross, why don't we listen to the adult? You may say, " It's not that simple!" But it is.

If there is actually more to it then riddle me this: How is money any different from monkey bars? We do all we can to impress by using our strength and gifts to make it across. If that's not good enough, we'll even hang upside down and do flips. I've seen a kid belly flop into the gravel. On purpose. Once we have won the attention, or gotten the cash, we delight in people's jealous attempts to catch up to us and get what we have. It's all fun until one actually catches you or until you fall and scrape you knee. Plus, you may be the king of the playground. But it's an F-ing playground! Whoop-T-Freakin-do. Let's leave the playground and go to nap time so we can actually learn something.

Don't limit yourself to the standards of the world. They're all two dimensional and they are all recreational. The God has a view of things that we don't. Faith for me is to realize that and trust him on it and to do as he says, even if it means I'm the weird kid eating rocks in the corner of the blacktop. You will never understand the three dimensional view of things until the mediator from the third dimension is in your heart to explain it to you and to lead you through it. Jesus is sacrificing all that he is to hold the dimensional door open and he is inviting into the building.

Don't let your view limit your greatness. If He told us to be holy, don't you think he meant it. It's not as impossible as you would think. He has done the work for us and the evil girl chasing him will never catch him.