CLEAR

Living in Southern California where smog often make the sky so brown, the days when the winds turn the air so clear and clean, it just fills the soul with joy. It is like feeling totally alive when the day is bright and the sky so intensely blue.

It is easy to see the contrast in the sky if you seen those days when pollution practically suffocates the air. In fact the part of Southern California where I reside is located in a valley. Even though I'm not that many miles from the mountains there are days when the smog is so thick you literally can't see them.

I even recall a person saying they had flow into the valley at night, having never been to the state before and because of the smog didn't even know there were mountains for a few days till the winds came. Now that is quite a shock to the system.

But there really is not better feeling that this sense of clarity when it does come. The contrast between these two images can be so overwhelming and obvious.

Unfortunately, it can far more difficult when it comes to seeing spiritual things clearly and the things of God. I wish it wasn't true, but it is.

There is just something truly sad about how God's word gives us some very clear revelations at times and we just don't want to see them with clarity. I think a lot of reasons for that is because of the fact we are crippled by our prejudices.

We see God in our own mind think of what is spiritual by our idea of spirituality. And it doesn't matter if feel we are correct. The problem is if we temper our view by our own desires and not by what God says, we will never have other than blurred vision.

And the hard part is being willing, I mean truly willing to let God show us what is truly supposed to be clear. That is what is actually the truth.

We can all claim to seek it. What a real joy it is when that is true. But too often our view of it seems to be other than our goal.

And when God does try to give us a pair of eyes to see things from his point of view we end up squinting and claiming our vision is fine. Pity that is has to be that way.

But sadly it doesn't seem to matter. People flock to listen to false teaching who fake miracles. And those who attend swear by the event, no matter how much it is obvious it isn't real.

Is this really God's will? Or is it our desires and heart getting in they way of what is the Lord's wish for our lives.

We each have to answer that question for ourselves. Some times we do and sometimes we do not reach out as we should. Hopefully more often than not.