dailydatewithgod

God’s vision is beyond our understanding. Our vision is limited. Sometimes the most powerful prayer for me is, “God help me to see this as you see this.”  And in God’s fashion sometimes that happens automatically, other times it happens slowly over time.  My sight will sometimes shift so slowly that I don’t realize the shift has happened.  Then someone asks me a question that I have been asked a million times before and out of my mouth comes a completely different answer.  I find myself saying and doing things that seemed to baffle me before.  I am not bothered by a situation or afraid of something that I was sure would harm me.  It is as though God has changed my eyes.  There is a sense of peace in who I am being that was never there before.  I find myself feeling as though life really does happen for me, not to me.  This sight of life is the biggest gift of my dates with God.  I realized after a time that if I wanted to see more of how God saw me and the world around me, spending dedicated time with God as well as listening and learning from others who have done the same needed to take a priority in my life.  I do not understand God’s perspective nor do I think I ever will but as far as I am concerned as long as God is, I want to be a part of that vision.  It makes no sense that coming to a place of forgiveness for my father’s incestual actions is what has taught me to love.  It sounds ridiculous that I had to get to a place of killing my body with food and blow up to over 300 plus pounds to recognize the beauty and the sacredness of the vessel through which God has called me to live out this life. It does not matter that my mind could not envision either of those outcomes, God’s vision is greater.  It is God’s vision that has brought me to a place of peace that I did not experience until I asked to see it as God does.  Yet each time I reach another level of reconciliation of a different layer of either of these factors in my life I am right back to thinking it can’t be done.  So I come to God on our date, tell him so, and ask to see it differently.  And so, like C.S. Lewis said, “Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

My prayer for us is the courage to admit that God’s sight is greater than ours in situations big and small and all that we need is the willingness to ask to be lent His sight for today.

If you could have God’s sight on a source of grief or strife in your life, who might you be free to be today? Share in the comments.