I absolutely love to find the perfect shades! You know, the one’s that protect your eyes from the sun but look great too. Everyone knows that sunglasses are necessary to protect their eyes and prevent them from discomfort, but what if I told you that the shades YOU are wearing may be causing more harm than good?
As Christians, many of us have difficulty relating to our Heavenly Father. Maybe we have tried but have never been able to fully understand the reasons for this. Let me surmise that our inability to properly relate to God is directly related to the foggy lenses through which we are seeing him. In his infinite wisdom, God placed babies in the loving care of parents. It was God’s plan that each parent would nurture and bring to life the spirit of each child. Due to mans free will and poor choices many of us have never received the love and nurture that God intended for us to receive.
I have heard people say that this is no big deal. I have heard others say that people “just need to get over it.” While these ideas may sound great , to some, we know that they are simply impossible. The ways in which we relate to our parents will affect us for a lifetime! There is no escaping it. Our choices will determine whether or not these things will have a positive impact on our lives, or on the contrary, affect us in a negative way.
I was blessed to be raised by a loving father. While I never questioned his love for me, my eyes have now been opened to the ways in which his parenting affected my ability to see God clearly. The best example that I can think of is the idea that “you made your bed now you must lay in it.” This very statement has made it difficult for me to fully realize the free grace of God. I often find myself believing that God will leave me to figure things out on my own when I have messed things up, that he will in someway punish me for my mistakes, failures, and shortcomings. This is just one of many lies that I struggle with believing about the God that I serve.
Through my belief in these lies, I have placed onto God the nature of my earthly father. Every lie that we choose to believe represents yet another smear on the lens through which we see and relate to God. The more speckled our lens becomes, the more difficult it is to see our Heavenly Father for who he TRULY is. To properly know and relate to HIM we must find his attributes in scripture and refuse to associate the sins of our fathers with him.
It is impossible to truly know God without constant communion and fellowship with him. If you find your self having difficulty in this area take a minute to examine your glasses. Are there things that you have come to believe about God that in no way line up with who HE says that he is? Do you know who HE is? I challenge you to get to know him. To see him as anything but a good father is to see him through a foggy lens.
James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows
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