What is so special about the unseen, or the unknown? What is the mystery and the majesty inherent in something that we don't know about?
When Christopher Columbus sailed round the southern most tip of the Americas with his fleet of ships, he passed within visible sight of the shore. There were some native people of the area on the beach who saw the ships. But they just ignored them. You hear that and you wonder, well how can they ignore something so amazing as a fleet of ships sailing past? The simple fact of that sighting was that they natives had no knowledge of preconceptions on how to react to these ships. For all they knew they were just a new fish that they hadn't seen before. They did not have the knowledge of what those ships meant, so therefore they ignored it.
Isn't that so like us today? We think we know so much. We think we have all the answers in our modern 'wisdom.' But in so many ways we are just like the natives at the instance of Columbus sailing past. We see things that quite literally defy anything we understand. So we ignore them. Its not even that we discount them, or have debates on what they mean. It is quite literally that we don't even register them in our conscious mind.
So what is the mystery or the majesty in something that we don't know? The natives didn't know the ships that past them, and when it came down to it, they didn't seem to care.
For many people God is an unknown. Gods plans for them are an unknown. Why God lets them suffer is an unknown. There are so many unknowns when it comes to God and what He has for us in this life.
Why is that?
Is it because we are like the natives? Something comes along that defies explanation, so we just ignore it? Is that the way we should be?
I think we should keep our eyes and our ears open in everything we do. Even if its just for that one chance, that one instance where we catch a fleeting echo of a world beyond this one. The shadow of an existence that surpasses this world. The music of a realm that defies explanation in our minds. A faint whisper on the wind.
Keep your mind open to the moving of God in your life. A movement so gentle, yet at the same time so profound. Something you can't possibly fail to notice or appreciate, if you just have the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the heart to follow.
You will be amazed...
When Christopher Columbus sailed round the southern most tip of the Americas with his fleet of ships, he passed within visible sight of the shore. There were some native people of the area on the beach who saw the ships. But they just ignored them. You hear that and you wonder, well how can they ignore something so amazing as a fleet of ships sailing past? The simple fact of that sighting was that they natives had no knowledge of preconceptions on how to react to these ships. For all they knew they were just a new fish that they hadn't seen before. They did not have the knowledge of what those ships meant, so therefore they ignored it.
Isn't that so like us today? We think we know so much. We think we have all the answers in our modern 'wisdom.' But in so many ways we are just like the natives at the instance of Columbus sailing past. We see things that quite literally defy anything we understand. So we ignore them. Its not even that we discount them, or have debates on what they mean. It is quite literally that we don't even register them in our conscious mind.
So what is the mystery or the majesty in something that we don't know? The natives didn't know the ships that past them, and when it came down to it, they didn't seem to care.
For many people God is an unknown. Gods plans for them are an unknown. Why God lets them suffer is an unknown. There are so many unknowns when it comes to God and what He has for us in this life.
Why is that?
Is it because we are like the natives? Something comes along that defies explanation, so we just ignore it? Is that the way we should be?
I think we should keep our eyes and our ears open in everything we do. Even if its just for that one chance, that one instance where we catch a fleeting echo of a world beyond this one. The shadow of an existence that surpasses this world. The music of a realm that defies explanation in our minds. A faint whisper on the wind.
Keep your mind open to the moving of God in your life. A movement so gentle, yet at the same time so profound. Something you can't possibly fail to notice or appreciate, if you just have the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the heart to follow.
You will be amazed...
