Untangling

Windy days are perfect for revelations. Not that you need wind to think. Not that there is a magic dust that swirls new thoughts into your mind. On windy days, you listen to something invisible. You see something you cannot see. The air, freshly stirred, hovers about your face, presses into your eyes. It’s powerful, majestic. You know wind has all the scientific reasonings behind it, why it happens. But still, your childlike gaze is struck by the magnitude of the breeze, the chilling, the sheer force. It’s like there is something in that air, something haunting or entirely wonderful. You feel the presence of something more, something greater than yourself, horrifyingly beautiful. Wind moves. It freshens. Just stand still and listen, feel it, hear it. Although it’s invisible, it somehow makes the world seem alive…

You can feel it. Taste it. The wind has no image but it can be seen.

You might not think so, but God works in this way too.

We don’t see him. Therefore we tend to think this whole Christianity thing is just a big game of imaginary friends gone wild. Many people don’t believe He exists because there are no definite visuals. No fireworks declaring His presence, no booming voice calling your name…

He’s invisible. But His creations are not.

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”

The wind engages us. It captures us. Makes us stand in awe. Makes us want to worship something. We are drawn to look up in the sky and call on something. It is how true Christianity should be…

What if I told you that you could see God. Not in the traditional sense. Or at least know what He is like in a entirely personal way.

When the wind blows, it moves everything. The trees rustle. There’s commotion. There’s power bubbling in the air. The wonders of the wind can be seen. God can be seen through His people.
“No one has ever seen God but if we love another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”

We see God when we see His body of believers loving one another. We see God, actually get a taste of him. But we see the greatest representation in His son, Jesus, who came as a human so that we could relate.

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”

Just look at Jesus’ life and you will see what God is like.

So take a fresh look at the wind, at your life. You might just find something more than just molecules, something beyond the invisible.

Take a look at a blog about C.S. Lewis:
C.S. Lewis Blog

You can sit for hours in the same chair. You are surfing the internet, flipping the TV channels, turning the pages of a textbook, staring at the wall. Normal, everyday ventures. You fill your time. Laugh for a moment. Entertained for an expanse. No real plan, mildly bored. You keep sitting. Must find something. Feel lazy. Another hour passes. A sappy movie watched. It was good while it lasted. Your feet start falling asleep; a dark shadow of numbness clogs your toes. You stare out into space. Don’t care if your feet dissolve into a tingling seclusion. You are oblivious to your senses. The chair is so comfortable though, you don’t want to get up. You start changing the channels again…only to find out there is nothing to satisfy, nothing real. And then you are left sitting in the chair, sickened by the hours you’ve tossed, a sort of nauseated existence, glued down by something sticky and routine. You are searching, but not finding. You are sitting and not caring why.

Sitting down when you could be standing up. Looking to things on earth, building an immunity against anything uncomfortable and piercing to the heart.

Many people sit their whole lives. A numbness to the truth beyond the couch. Not physically sitting, but stuck in the same thought process. The hum-drum. The spell of the earth’s chant capturing them in its tempting snare, hardening their hearts. People so deeply entrenched in the world, so reluctant to take God into account.

“We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”

We are sort of stuck in a chair and changing the wrong channels. We hope the new cars will fill us. It won’t. So we change the channel. We think the awesome job right out of college will give us supreme satisfaction. It doesn’t. We try another TV show. We get in a relationship, thinking that the humanly love will fill us and never displease. But that person cannot replace the most important factor, neither can the car, the job. There will always be something missing unless you find out what it truly is. And it is the love, the light found in God.

So become blank for a moment. Sit in that chair. Turn on the television in your mind. What ‘channels’ do you immediately turn to? The shopping network, you love clothing. Forget it. Your money runs out. You like sports, it fills you, gives you the good life. You ruin your knee. Goodbye NFL. The educational channel, good grades are fun! You fail a class. So long med school.

And then you cringe. You happen upon a channel exposing everything evil you’ve ever done. Pause for a second. Resist the urge to change the channel. Think about lying, cheating, hating…You’ve done at least one of those things…Imagine everything you’ve said being played on the big screen in front of everyone you’ve ever talked badly about…You are stuck in that chair…

But you can change the channel. All you have to do it stand up. Stand up. Look up. Jesus died to take away the guilt of sins in your life so that you might have full life, forgiveness. Think about your life. Why are you even here? Beyond the surface. Think. Life can’t be about good grades, having fun, finding a sweet job. All of those things fade away, are too fragile and short. Just try standing up. Get rid of that numbness in your feet. Look up. Maybe open up a bible. Learn a little more about God. He’s real. It’s not a story, another channel on the screen. He’s the ultimate Movie Star, the great Director. He wants you to play a role in His story. Will you stand?

“For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.”

It all starts when we think we wake up. We open our eyes to what we normally see, the surface of our existences. Living is merely eating, is only studying, is being with other people. Fading moments, evaporating. We walk along the paths of campus, going along. Just keep looking at the pavement, at our shoes. Wake up. Go to sleep. We wake up. We go to sleep. We talk about the surface, our short lives. Searching for success, for stability. Living for money, for a good time, for anything free. Stuff to satisfy. Stuff to alleviate the unquenched rattling of our uncertain longings. There could be something more to it, to the reason why we are actually alive. What is seen is only what is seen…that daydream rotting your mind. Most of us live in a gray-scale realm, a nightmare really. Our eyes are closed yet we think we have 20/20 vision. There is something unseen. Something we are letting slip by…Some sleep for eighty years until they finally realize. We can continue just going along with the motions, never fully in the light….

But do you really want to sleep?

There is something more to life. It is beyond imagination. The story, the truth will be like a dream you never want to end. And it won’t. For you’ll be awake and alert. You’ll find true love, never ending. God is not part of a fairy tale. He’s real. When will we be real?

“Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come… before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain…Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken…”

My blog is about the reality I have found. God is real. He’s not simply a happy thought. He is powerful love, beautiful. Will you take a peak into the possibility? I want to share things I’ve learned, information that’s hit my heart. There is something out there we aren’t seeing, I wasn’t seeing. But all you have to do is seek what is beyond, what is greater than living.

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”