Falling Leaves & Wrong Lenses
Our trees are in a place where leaves are changing a deep red with a hint of other colors in between. A few orange with some soft yellow. It truly is a beauty to see the gift of viewing season changes.
As I stand here typing, because I can’t seem to sit today, I can’t help but think how often we overlook the beauty of colored changing leaves.
When I take a look at the leaves each one has its unique style. Unique creativity. I grabbed one only to see it looked more like a snakeskin rather than a leaf. The other I began to see softness and gentleness in it.
One is more crips than the other, while others are more brittle or harder to break.
With each passing season, I can’t help but see God’s hand at work in it all. Even when its hard to view and hard to see, I know He is at work in all things. It’s called faith.
The past few years had been challenging and difficult in some ways.
But God, He had pulled my heart towards his to show me a different view of life. A view that only I could see when placed the spiritual lenses on and not the worldly lens.
How different it is to see with the heavenly realm lens and not the worldly lens.
Viewing through the heavenly realm lens isnt ignoring the fact of what’s happening but seeing the root causes of such attitudes and such.
It was then, that I began to see something new in the “old.”
If we had put on lenses that didn’t match our eyesight, what would we see? I would see such a blur. But if I were to put on the correct lens that matched my eyesight, I’d see in the clear.
If I had continued to leave the wrong lens on, I’d miss the beauty of the leaves falling and instead be stuck in that rut not able to move.
But instead, I placed the new lens on to see something new.
We may not like to face and walk through difficulty, through challenges, or through hardships. Quite frankly, who does? But it is in these moments we must, most definitely must have the right lens on, because if we don’t all we will see is the wrong things and never the right things.
Not placing on the correct lens, we will soon miss God’s hand at work because the wrong lens has us focusing on the blur, the wrong things, the hard, the difficult, the giants in front of us rather than seeing God bigger than what we are facing and walking through.