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Am I Myopic?

Am I myopic?

More often than not, we can't live lives of complete victory,
and we feel our days are plagued with problems of all shapes and sizes.

We don't enjoy heaven on earth all the time.
Because we have been myopic.

Spiritual Myopia.

It makes you think your problems and circumstances are worthy of concern.
Worthy of worries.
Worthy of becoming an excuse for many un-Christlike decisions.

It makes you see the mouse like the lion.
It makes God looks pathetically, incompetent.

Oh yes, granted, they are legitimate concerns of life and difficulties which any typical mind of man will find hard to cope with.

But surely when the God of Creation make bold and sweeping statements like,

"Rejoice in the Lord always" and
"We are more than Conquerors through Him who love us",

He must have a reason for them.
He must be trying to make a point.
An extreme and radical point.

A rationale for living that is distinctively unlike any philosophies of man.

And the best part of that is, it's not a suggestion.
It's a promise.

Can't see beyond the mountain of your life right now?
Don't worry, my dear soldier-in-Christ.

I haven't been able to either.

Thank God, I've come to revisit two secrets to free one of Spiritual Myopia.

First, live knowing God loves you, yes, God loves you, as if you were the only created being He has.
If only we understand more than what we know of the magnitude of God's love for the man, not in the collective sense, we may indeed be closer to living to heaven.
(It was on a morning's journey to school that I was suddenly hit by how precious I have not realise, I am to God.)
Claiming the personal love of God is so vital.

Second, live the temporal life on earth with the eternal perspective of heaven.
This is so true.
With this in mind, re-assess your problems today.
When you do it with a humble heart of surrender, you will be appalled by how inefficient how your mind had been functioning.
Like how a machine runs with unclean substances in its lubricant, our minds can be choked with corrosive and destructive thoughts which great minds of man label as, "WORRIES".
It is with this eternal perspective of things to come that have allowed great men and women of God to overcome problems and pain in life.
And I'm convinced greatness in Christ is not available for only a few selected ones.
What is moulded from the hands of a great God can't possibly be anything less than...great.

So...allow me to ask myself and you, the dear reader of Palc:

What do you see today?

posted by Si'er @ Thursday, February 17, 2005