As I walked the other day, I saw a giant glass in front of me. Through this glass, I saw everything including my reflection on its very crisp clear surface. It was like a giant window that I saw the world through. As I continued walking, the glass easily traveled in front of me. I couldn’t see anything except through the glass.
I was quickly reminded of a few clients that have experienced something similar during times of prayer. They would find themselves in front of a mirror, except it wasn’t. What they thought was a mirror was actually just a glass that they could see through, and because it was glass, it cast their reflection back to them. It was making them think that they were seeing a reflection, when what they were really seeing was a distortion of the truth. Each time someone I work with finds themselves in this place, they get through the glass in a different way. One person simply walked through the glass. Another smashed it and when they did it disappeared.
I knew I was currently seeing the glass in front of myself because of some heart healing that I’ve currently been working through. There are different phases to our healing process. We work through things, and He brings healing, then we rest and grow…until He’s ready to move deeper. Then we have a choice. Do we desire to be more deeply healed or to simply live with the amount we’ve already received. We will grow and mature, at the same rate of our healing.
If you’ve ever wondered why someone is older but immature…it’s a direct correlation to the amount of heart healing and forgiveness they allow God to bring into their lives.
When a person chooses bitterness and unforgiveness, they also choose immaturity and self-centered ideals about everything. All of life is a choice, it seems. A choice about how we will respond to the fallen world. How we will respond to our own sin and the sins of others.
We all see life through a filter. Our life experiences, pains, disappointments, victories, proud moments, failures…all of these things can create a filter through which we experience life.
When God brings us face to face with this, we know it’s time to move past the glass.
Right now, I want to ask you to take a minute, close your eyes and ask God if you are seeing life through a filter. Is this a filter He wants to use, or is it a distortion of the Truth?
Now that you have asked, let’s remove any negative distortion to your vision. Are you willing?
God, I ask that you would dissolve the glass in front of me. Bring healing to the parts of me that allowed for this glass to be placed before me. God, I forgive (anyone He brings to your mind) and I release them to you. I receive back Your vision for my life. I choose to walk in Truth today and forevermore. Help me to see clearly, as I worship in spirit and in truth. Come and be my Vision, God. Lead me in Truth. In Jesus’ name, amen.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:11-13
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