If you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself face down on the battlefield before you recognize you’re in the middle of a fight for your life! Long ago you were well received by family and friends as having been the adorable infant with rosy cheeks and impressionable eyes as a distinct trademark. Before you could comprehend experiences in life, your eyes were most valuable in determining affection from recognizable personalities and disapproval of foes who played with your toys.
Somewhere in the chain of progression, years advanced faster with each blink of the eye, yet it was your eyes that carried secrets hidden too deep for denial to be reasonable. In the most secret of places lies the access key into the gateway of the heart. We’ve all heard the excuses in life, yet somehow what you see is not always what you get.
Training day began the day we were conceived while learning to advance the skill of our eyes through attrition. One day we find ourselves hiding behind walls, others and claiming popularity by association--whereas other days we convince ourselves through the broken values of others that we are somehow invaluable and our outside appearance is worth a second, third and fourth look! What is this time honored code that is more intoxicating than modern day pharmaceuticals? What is this key that offers access to unknown places not yet recognized nor reconciled in the human heart?
Deep in hidden places of our hearts is the place where motives, intentions and character is reasoned. Similar to a factory assembly line lays the complex arguments of denial and intentions in negotiation with reality, faith and intellect. Very Little is accomplished there because motives always demand the first and last word, yet character is responsible for packaging the end product before it is shipped to market in the mind and manipulated with the eyes. Billions of decisions flow through this complex feeding tube of life and is shared with anyone who will listen.
The rewards of such behavior is only rivaled by the process from which it came with shark feeding frenzy-like effect! The scales of life are easily tipped one way or another just like the well defined hourglass shaped woman who balances herself on 3-inch heels with every powerful exaggerated strut. Then of course, there’s the over confident man wearing his shirt half-buttoned and three sizes too small; he has obviously forgotten the embarrassment of this similar behavior only ten years earlier while in grade school.
In an instant, access to the eyes are opened long enough to see the depths of our hearts, yet few will look there for the end cannot be seen or measured. Temporary values for surgically altered body parts and sensual clothing that perform illegal feats containing body parts that are destined to explode under intense pressure, only lead way to the loneliness that comes long after all the smiles and giggles have gone. The sweet taste of sensuality intoxication lasts for only a moment, and the bitter wormwood taste of emptiness, vanity and inferiority quickly follows.
Psalms 34:8, “O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!” (NAS)
Has there ever been a time better than now for you to come out of hiding? What have you been drawn to lately? You’ve tasted many things in life yet each has it’s own distinct flavor, scent, and emotion. Maybe you are that person who struggles with what others think or say about you? Maybe you think people value your possessions, intellect or physical features?
Is it possible that you’ve found yourself chewing on rocks and the desperation to fit in and be recognized, accepted and praised has driven you into a life of performing in a contest you will never win? Have you convinced yourself that you are over it and in control--Don’t fool yourself! Are you willing to take a step into the abyss of your own heart and find out fact from fiction? There is only one hope for you and it is wrapped up solely in the person who did for you what you could never do for yourself--Jesus Christ! One things for sure--everyone needs a savior and that includes you.
Do you want a brand new start and a fresh beginning? You can have it right now--just give up running and invite Jesus Christ into your life right this moment. You don’t have to be religious or weird about it! Simply admit to Him that you’ve done many wrong things and need His forgiveness, Invite Him to be your Lord and Savior and give you a desire to know Him. When you pray this with sincerity in your heart, you’ll immediately become a brand new person!
Share your thoughts with me and post your comment along with your name. Let me know how I can specifically pray for you--Be encouraged!
Egypt McKee
Author, Speaker & Pastor
from the book: Life. The Struggle Within
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