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Perception “Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now” (I Corinthians 13: 11-12). In his bestseller book The 7 habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey writes: “He was doing poorly academically; he didn’t even know how to follow the instructions on the tests. . . Socially he was immature, often embarrassing those closest to him. Athletically, he was small, skinny, and uncoordinated. . . Others would laugh at him.” Covey struggles with the perception that his son was “basically inadequate, somehow behind,” until he and his wife realized that what they were doing to address these struggles that they perceived his son to be having were not in harmony with the ways they “really say him.” For Covey the realization came when he dwelt in how perceptions are formed. He concludes that when we realize how embedded our perceptions are we realize that as we look at the world around us it is critical to note that the lens through which we look at our particular world is as important as the world we see. In fact the lens we look through is what defines the world we see. As the writer to Corinthians deals with his inability to comprehend God’s ways he comes to the realization that his lens is foggy. It is only when he looks at his circumstances through God’s Eyes that the picture then becomes clear. I often struggle with the many whys of our every day life. Why do innocent children get hurt? Why are good people unable to bear children when there are babies born everyday in crack houses? Why do bad things happen to me now that I am serving God and seeking His face daily when these things did not happen when I was a bad person? Why do many children go hungry every day in the world when in America most of us are in a diet? These seem to be hard questions with no evident answers until we look at them through God’s eyes. It is not until the moment we realize that our worldview has been shaped by a faulty, foggy lens that we are able to put on a new lens that will give us very clear vision. If we are colored blind it does not matter how often we look at colors all we will see is gray. Until we look at our circumstances and the world around us through God’s eyes we will always see gray. Lord allow me to reshape the lens through which I see the world as I look at the world through your eyes; you’re Holy Scriptures. Meditation:
Through what lens have you been looking at the
world?
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