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This
morning I rode my horse on the land across from our home. For years I have driven past that same field on my way to
work. That same field with
cattle grazing and the creek that overflows with every spring rain.
I have always been familiar with the houses and the barns; the
creeks and the trees. Everything
in its place….just as it has always been from my earliest memories
until now.
Today
I rode to the far back of this land, to the other side of the hills.
I came up to a pond and then I saw some buildings that I didn’t
recognize. For a moment I
had lost my bearings and thought that perhaps I had somehow crossed over
to someone else’s land.
The
closer I rode to the buildings I soon realized that they were the same
buildings that I had know for all these years.
I just never saw them from this viewpoint.
Everything was the same as it had always been…they had not
moved or changed, but “I” had.
Immediately
I thought about my relationship with God.
He is always the same, He never changes nor does He ever move
away from His children. I
wondered, ”is my relationship with Jesus so weak that I wouldn’t
recognize Him in a way I
was not used to seeing Him?” I
tend to say that Jesus is like this or like that, but the bottom line
is, He is everything.. He does not fit into a mold.
Where
do you see Jesus? Do you
recognize Him when He is working in your life?
Or, do you try to limit His activity by expecting Him to only
appear a certain way? Hmmm….I
wonder…would we recognize Jesus if we were to see Him from a different
view?
©
LBG Ministries 2001
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