trying to sum up what God has been doing in my heart this year as i wrap up this season at Crystal Peaks. today as i was preparing for the farewell conversation (aka exit interview) i'll be having with two of the staff later this week, it came to me that the crux of it all could be called PERSPECTIVE.
imagine walking through life with thick, skewed lenses in your geeky glasses. i don't have glasses. i always thought they made people look smart, but imagine the stupidity of wearing glasses that warp the world you see. glasses that distort reality. the one wearing the glasses believes that reality is what they see from behind the lenses.
yet every day, i see a skewed perspective because i wear untrue lenses. the belief i choose is the lens i choose. i see the world through the set of beliefs about myself, others, and God that i, either by conscious or unconscious choice, have allowed to shape my worldview.
so Christ has brought me back again and again to two questions...
who do you believe that I am?
who do you believe that you are?
how i answer these two questions defines my thoughts, shapes my feelings, motivates my actions, is at the root of my habits. i know the right answers... the question is, which answers do i truly believe? the evidence is obvious - the evidence is the life that i live, the thoughts that i think each and every day.
who do you believe that I am?
who do you believe that you are?
