ELEMENTS

What truly lies at the core of your being? What is the thing you value most in life? It is a question that we all have to answer in life.

But not always able to find the answers where he look. For sometimes we are driven by our desires and not by our logic.

When that happens it can teach us something about ourselves. Providing we don't get trapped in the frame of thought to excuse our shortcomings.

Feeling that we are in control of life is so important to some. It might be an illusion, but some think it is important just the same.

To truly reach into the core of one's life requires eyes we do not have. They come from God through the power of his Holy Spirit.

And we are given sight to truly see what we honestly value and believe. That can be a painful look at times.

For the truth isn't always flattering. But not looking can truly be more difficult. For then we are stuck in darkness.

It can be very comfortable in that environment. We just can relax and see only what we want see.

That can be so satisfying as long as we don't worry about the truth. And we might spend our whole lives dwelling there.

This can be a place so deceptive. For we honestly decide we are good and have no problems.

Left to think we are even without sin if we let the delusion continue. This naturally does not bring us closer to the Lord.

Some can spend their whole lives in such realms. They can go to church, sit in the pews and genuinely believe they are somehow perfect.

But normally this all comes to an end when meeting the Lord in person. It doesn't mean that is the best time to find out we had our eyes closed too long.

And even knowing all of this does not mean you learn and see everything. For none of us has perfect sight.

However, to gaze with willingness to look brings us more sight than to pretend all things are perfect. God's grace truly abounds the most when we are in the shadows of ignorance.