They’re Missing It Because They Are Looking At The Wrong Things
John 1:10-13 New Living Translation
(NLT)
10 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t
recognize him. 11 He came to his own people, and even they
rejected him. 12 But to all who believed him and accepted him,
he gave the right to become children of God. 13 They are
reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a
birth that comes from God.
Most
of us have heard the phrase “cannot see the forest for the trees.” This statement or phrase is truer than most
of us would care to admit. My husband
and I have known each other since High School, I liked him (but other things or
people happened). Back then I was just
Lisa James from the hill that would not let him get in the last word; although
there was time that we shared that identified a part of me that was different
then I allowed many to see, it also told him I liked him but he overlooked that
for what was more aggressive and what he perceived as “shimmer,” what he knew
of me was over looked and I tease him often that he missed one of the greatest
revelations he could have had then, loving me for a life time. It wasn’t until 30 years later when he was
reading the devotionals that he recognized what had been present back in High school
which was the God in me. Admittedly not
at the level it is presently and I was definitely not able to articulate or
write God and His omnipotence in the fashion I presently do, but I loved God even then and the sensitive heart
that he reference often now was there then as well.
All
too often God will send us into the lives of people and they will miss the
revelation of who we are, because they are so busy looking for their needs,
help, friendship, and advice or love to come in a different way; a different
package. Much as when God sent Jesus to
us, we were looking for Him in any way than the way He came. I am sure the people of His day were not looking
for the Savior to be the son of a carpenter or to be born in a manger; nor did
they anticipate Him to hang in the midst of dysfunction or irreparable people. I would expect that people around Jesus were
probably looking for anything but who He was and how He came. They too as my husband so many years ago were
looking for the “shimmer,” their brand of success or what they have categorized
as credible by what they have or what someone can do for them. It is here they
end up missing the heart of the matter, the depth of individual and the expressed
purpose in which they have been sent to into their lives. Galatians 6:8 reminds
us, “For he who sows to his own flesh (lower nature, sensuality)
will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction, but he
who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.” When we see and evaluate through the eyes of
our flesh we will reap what the flesh produces, but when we allow the spirit to
influence how we decide, how we think and even who we allow to get close to us,
we will reap things that are eternal, spiritual and things that produce life
even in the natural.
Is there someone
that you have missed or is their someone’s life that you have been sent into
that has missed you because you don’t walk with swag, or have a lot of money,
or work a job they respect and consider successful. Make sure you evaluate by
the spirit and not by your flesh. If you have been the one overlooked, or
dismissed pray for them and keep being about your Father’s business. Many of us have missed God because He did not
show up the way we thought He should?
All too often the pictures we painted have been
brush strokes of our flesh and we have not
allowed the Spirit of God within us to guide the artistry of our lives and the
landscape of the portraits God desires.
Take a moment to look with the eyes of spiritual discernment and not the
eyes of our biasness, prejudices, baggage or our fleshly desires. Don’t miss your blessings or your
deliverance. Don’t have your Savior,
your blessing, your God send right in front of your face and allow your flesh,
or mind to get in the way of missing what God has for you! If you are the one being overlooked, don’t
take it personally, they aren’t missing you, but the God in you…In either case
look to Jesus and live!
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