On the way home, it started t rain. Just a few drops here and there sprinkled the windshield, but before I knew it, it was pouring....I kept thinking that I would get through it and not have to use my windshield wipers.....do you ever do that? Like compete with yourself or nature or something just to try not to have to use your windshield wipers? Who cares when you have to turn them on!!! But we do it....so I turned them on and proceeded home.
When I got home, I spent the rest of the day getting my house clean for Bible Study and my clothes packed for New York...in my busyness, I realized that I had lost sight of God's presence in my life.....anybody else do that? So I stopped and asked the Lord what I had missed during the day that He wanted me to see....He shared with me about the rain on the windshield:
when we let more of the world's definitions of womanhood begin to sprinkle in, we can still see the truth pretty well....those falsehoods like "my attitude and aptitude will give me my womanhood value and worthiness" begin to get a little heavier in my life andI began to become affected by them....my vision begins to get impaired and I can no longer see the truth nearly as clearly as I did when there was only a small sprinkle here or there of falsehood. But let me get distracted and torn away from the truth when the downpours of falsehood are let into my life, and before I know it, I can no longer see at all! My vision is totally blurred! Then, I need the WIPER to come and clear the falsehoods so that I can again see the truth about myself clearly once again.
Have some of you found yourself in the downpour of falsehoods? Has it begun to blur your vision of truth? Let Jesus and his Truth wipe the windshield of your mind clear, so that you can again see the truth about who you are and who He made you to be.
Lord, help us see ourselves as You see us and made us to be! In the strong and powerful name of Jesus I ask, amen
What a perfect analogy for what happens so quickly in our lives. I start my day totally focused on God and His Truths and before I can recognize it, I've lost sight of His will for my life and I'm forging ahead with my own wants and desires. It happens so quickly it's scary, but in God's grace something I see, hear, or feel jolts me back to where my focus needs to be - in Him.
Thanks for the reminder.
Ginger
I find it humorous that we both posted similar jobs on vision/perspective. Great minds ... ??