Reality check

The sea is His, for He made it,
and His hands formed the dry land.
- Psalm 95:5

Reading this last night, I was reminded again about the fact that God, who is unseen, is, in a way, even more REAL than what is seen. I mean, I see things He made. He made them, so He is far more worth noticing and paying attention to!

A book I'm reading (The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard) talks about this too.

The spiritual is more real than the physical. The seen will pass away - the unseen will last.
So why don't we live so much more in faith, trusting in the unseen - the permanent, the REAL?!

Driving lesson

I remember my first driving lesson, years ago.
I sat behind the wheel and held it nervously. My instructor asked, "How do you steer?"
"I don't know - I guess I just do it." I answered.
"That's right," he said. "Don't think about steering. Just steer. Look ahead to the furthest point in the road you can, and steer. Your hands will follow your eyes."

Isn't this good advice for living the Christian life? I've been chatting with people about difficulties and distractions from following God, and we usually end up with 'focus on Christ, and live! The other stuff will sort itself out.'

If we look to the side when driving, we'll end up crashing into a fence or tree. If we take our focus off the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the cross, we will be consumed by things less important, and we will crash.

Our hands will follow our eyes.
Our lives will follow our focus.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:1-3, NIV