Windows

I wonder... who invented the window? These portals which allow us a glimpse into the reality that exists beyond our little room. Take a look out one now... go on, take a peek. What do you see? The neverending stream of traffic on that busy road? National flags swaying in the wind? People strolling home after a long day's work? Without windows, we're much like the frog in the well, not realising that there's a lot more out there than we can ever imagine. Our reality is influenced by the bigger world out there, but without a window, the poor frog thought that the whole world revolved round him.

A close friend wrote recently about returning to reality.  Think that happens to a lot of us. We get sick and tired of looking out certain windows that we close them, draw the shutters, pull down the curtains and throw the key to one side. Then we go sit in front of one that looks out to "paradise" and sigh at the wonderful sight, trying to forget the window we just closed. Delusional? Nah... Escapism? Perhaps... Human? Definitely.

By focussing on the reality of this fallen world, we'll feel discouragement. If the world out there can be transformed into a matrix code (those falling green letters you see in the movie) we'll probably see the words 'me', 'myself' & 'I' many, many times over. Now, THAT'S reality. At the end of the day, we do get troubled by what we see cos in the first place, we were never designed to see those three words.

The main window we're supposed to look out of, is the B,I,B,L,E (Who, in Jn 1 is Jesus Christ himself). For what we NEED to know about the world is all in there, not what we should/want/hope to know. The 'Jesus' window is one filled with instructions pertaining to how and what we should look out for through the other windows of life. For true joy (that's what everyone is looking for isn't it?) is found not by looking at creation, but at the creator.  

So, have I closed this 'Jesus' window? Have i pulled down the shutters, drawn the curtains and thrown the key aside? Has the reality of this world appeared so cold to me because i failed to look out the right window? Hmm...

 
 
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector 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"

Heb 12:2,3