“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the
beauty that still remains.”
— Anne Frank
We can praise God for the
experiences of the stoically blessed through such a dastardly thing, even, as
war. In loss, in hardship, in pain, and in numbed nothingness, there is more to
see—with God, through Jesus Christ.
We can combine the worst of events
with the Presence of God and come through the present moment knowing that God
is with us through the beauty that still remains.
We can attach meaning in the
course of cursing, that God still wants the best for us despite the agency of
tremulous, sobbing discontent.
When God is ‘with’ us, as is
always the case, but when we realise it with renewed purpose, we tend to see
more than what we would normally see. Such a thing as God’s Presence is a
shimmering reality on an otherwise bleak canvas. It makes up for the solemn depth
of our sullen mood.
Having the Faith to See More
As soon as we realise there is the
possibility to see more than we are seeing, when we need it, we attempt to see more, and in that we express faith, believing that God can provide
more to see.
This sense of faith provides us,
in Being of God’s resplendence, with what we need in that moment. And God comes
through in the strangest of bizarre ways. We are shown what we ordinarily would
not see. The gates of glory are opened to us in the simplicity of everyday
things.
Suddenly everyday things take on
the magnificence of eternity.
We are seeing afresh. Our sight
has been renewed; now complete with the spiritual blessing of the sense of and
for God. Now we truly know God exists in us, within us, and all about us—to the
unique specificity of our need.
We observe evidence everywhere.
What opened the door to this
spiritualised sense of sight was the raw faith to believe beyond sight. And the
catalyst, the
ignition point, to such faith is what we typically call the presence of
cursing. In this we can see that what we normally call cursed actually opens
the blessed door of true spiritual sight; the glory of God in the everyday.
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We can combine the worst of events
with the Presence of God and come through the present moment knowing that God
is with us through the beauty that still remains.
God shows us more when we need to
see more, when we are prepared to open our hearts to see. Such sight requires
faith, and faith will convert cursing into blessing, through the power and
Presence of God.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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