Being completely transparent with you, I’ve been on a difficult journey the last few days. Read this post for a little background, but sometimes it just seems like God has me swamped in minute issues that don’t seem to count for much in the big picture of the kingdom. I don’t know whether he is troubling my perceptions of the world in order to prepare me for new challenges ahead, or whether I’m just being whiny and dissatisfied in the relationships of each day. Either way, he has me pondering the nature of obedience, love and kingdom values. So many times I long to live up to the words of Robbie Seay Band’s song, “Rise, rise people of love,” and then I blow it with the people nearest and dearest to me.

This morning I was reading a little bit in the book Metamorpha, by Kyle Strobel. This book has challenged me for months, as I read it a little bit at a time. It is the kind of book that requires digesting, thought and prayer. The passage that spoke to me today was this:

We do not have eyes to see in our natural condition. We journey trusting God’s Word about the nature of the kingdom, and the Spirit and the community work in our hearts mirroring back to us the reality of who we are that we may be inwardly empowered to follow God. As has been wisely said, “Those who walk by sight eventually learn that seeing may be misleading.” we must utilize a kingdom type of sight that depends on God’s way of seeing instead of our own.

Somehow that put things in perspective for me today. It’s sometimes easier for me to be faithful in the big crisis of life, but apparently it is in the details of life that God wants to work. I just don’t have the eyes to see right now what it is he is accomplishing. For me, this week, the theme has been to trust God for the journey and begin to see through his eyes.