Week 1 Throwback: Look Around You

“Truth conveyed in imagery transforms our vision more powerfully than the truth conveyed in propositional language.”

I love this little point made by Darrell---we are all very visual creatures: our eyes pull us strongly towards both the holy and the bad. In the former’s case, it makes me think of how if one is in want of feeling God’s work and presence, all one really has to do is look around. The expression of joy on a person’s face, the beautiful sunset on the horizon, seeing people treating the homeless to a meal. Hearing people singing praises, watching that child ask eagerly about Jesus, watching the rain that comes down to sustain life. There's something about those things that we find inherently beautiful, that give us a sense that there's more to this life than it seems. And if all those things are very beautiful to us, then what a happy day it is when one starts to see the dimension interweaving these things to the same reality!

Underlying this sensory smorgasbord, I’m slowly starting to develop that seventh sense of reality: God is working within us, our community, the Earth. He’s not far away playing us like Farmville---he’s among us lamp-stands, working every microsecond, sleeves rolled up and rocking the reality we live in. He makes beautiful things---but they are but mere messengers of shining figure of glory John sees.

The truth is all around us---God is all around me!