How many of us, on a daily basis, live our lives through a small lens?
Let me explain.. Are we living small lives, as small characters in a small play? You know the routine! The daily grind! You Go through life acting and reacting to life as it happens. Trying to make it through another day. Rarely giving a thought to the Divine and His role in your life or better yet , your role in His life! Are you inviting the Eternal into your daily life, asking Him to lead you into the BIGGER PICTURE?
I guess, the more relevant question is: Are you even aware that there is a bigger picture- a larger than life story being told and that you have a role to act upon in A Divine Play!?
If you have allowed the daily grind and the enemy of your souls to numb you to the bigger story, I have great news!
Today is a great day to invite the Divine into your life in a new and fresh way! Ask the Father of Light and Life to show you the bigger picture and your part in His Divine Play!
Caution! Be prepared to have your faith stretched and your vision re- calibrated! If you are open and willing… He will blow your mind and in the process He will renew your thinking, perceiving and way of processing life!
As I have walked out this wild adventure I am on, the Lord has shared much with me. So much that He told me to write it down. I suggest that if you honestly and earnestly pray for eyes to see the bigger picture- that you too should write it down. Whether a journal or a blog…. Just do it. Come to Him expecting revelation.
Trust me, He wants to show you the bigger story and your role more than you want to know it!
One thought I will leave with you. The Spirit told me one day, ” Jon , I am mysterious, but I am not a mystery!”
Peace, Jonathan
Following is from Daily Readings by John Eldredge.
Several years ago I went through one of the most painful trials of my professional life. The story involves a colleague whom I will call Dave, a man I hired and with whom I had labored several years in ministry. We spent many hours on the road together, speaking to churches about the Christian life. A point came when I needed to confront Dave about some issues in his life that were hurting his own ministry and the larger purposes of our team. In all fairness, I think I handled it poorly, but I was totally unprepared for what happened next. Dave turned on me with the ferocity of a cornered animal. He fabricated lies and spread rumors in an attempt to destroy my career. His actions were so out of proportion it was hard to believe we were reacting to the same events. He went to the head pastor in an attempt to have me dismissed. The attempt failed, but our friendship was lost, and several others were hurt in the process.
In the midst of the crisis, I spoke with Brent one afternoon about the turn of events and the awful pain of betrayal. He said, “I wonder what God is up to in all this?”
“God?” I said. “What’s he got to do with it?” My practical agnosticism was revealed. I was caught up in the sociodrama, the smaller story, completely blind to the true story at that point in my life. Brent’s question arrested my attention and brought it to a higher level. In fact, the process of our sanctification, our journey, rests entirely on our ability to see life from the basis of that question. As the poet William Blake warned long ago, “Life’s dim window of the soul distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and leads you to believe a lie, when you see with, not through, the eye.”
(The Sacred Romance , 146-47)
