Vision - Sight - The ability to rest

This first two weeks of scripture memory for me seemed like it went by very quickly. I took the challenge to join in on the Siesta Scripture Memory Team with Beth Moore - Siesta Mama and all us other gals. I chose 1 Corinthians 13:12 in the New Living Translation. If you did not know this the NLT add a BUNCH of words but these were words worth memorizing!!!

"Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see things with perfect clarity. All I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." NLT

When I say that this word has been relevant in my life I-kid-you-not! So many things I see right here right now even at this very moment I am typing this post is extremely puzzling! But it is so good that God knows everything including me COMPLETELY!

I am so grateful to my heavenly Father for leading me to this verse! It brings me rest when put to the test. I can rest in knowing that I don't have to see-it-all. I can rest knowing that He-Has-It-ALL! I can rest knowing that He is there on this side and the eternal one. I can rest because He knows what is best for me and for all of us. I never once thought that a verse on "vision" would help me rest but think about it. When you have to strain to "see" it is tiring. When you strain to "see" you become the cloudy image.

I can rest in the "but then"....where do you find your rest?

Abiding Still,

SIESTA Scripture Memory Team 2011

The first on my list for memorization in 2011 seems very fitting to me! We often ask for the eyes of the Lord to see things as He does and to see them clearly. We also ask and sing our request for our eyes to be opened so for me I choose and NEED 1 Corinthians 13:12. I have picked the New Living Translation for this verse. This just seemed so fitting for me personally. So many things this last year hit me that I could not see coming or if and when I did I just could not fully understand it...it was as if "it were in a mirror".

1 Corinthians 13:12, "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely." NLT

Our eyes fools us; to "see" something also implies that we comprehend it, as God fully does us! Our sight is limited and incomplete. Our sight to often lacks vision to put it plainly. This last year brings some mirror images to my mind that just flat wears me out to try to make sense of so I will trust Him who knows me. The year before cloudier still and the year before that...etc. You get my drift...imperfect...unclear...incomplete! I must also be mindful not to focus on the circumstances but on the ONE who holds them all. When I am tired and feel that I can't do one more thing...I will trust the One who brought me to it because He knows me!

He Sees Me!!!

El Roi!

Recently I began following a new blog named A Rose in Texas and the latest post by Tammy fit spot on with my first verse. Read her post here: A Rose in Texas: Let There Be Light. Most of all I wanted to share a quote from her post:

There is one element that must be present for any of us to experience the miracle of vision - Light! Without light, we cannot see. No matter how perfect our "vision", if we live in darkness, we experience only blindness.





"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

I "see" her point! I "see" John's point! And now I want all I "see" to point to Christ!
Trying to see correctly by viewing through a mirror or trying your best to make out aspects of items in the dark create puzzling and backward images. I want to see beyond this life and beyond the length of my own arm and have a perspective straight from my Heavenly Home. If it doesn't make sense here I want to fully trust that He has it under His capable control and the Lord God Almighty indeed has my very best in mind - He sees it! He knows it! He knows me!

It is not too late to join in if you want the best challenge of 2011 to be truly mind changing! Go here to Living Proof Ministries blog for instructions and here to post up! Get a spiral of index cards and begin your journey of knowing Him more and the journey toward clear vision!

Oh and let us know if you are joining in!
 
Abiding Still,
Chel

Being a SIESTA is no snooze!

I have been eagerly anticipating this adventure for 2011 to gain a little bit more about my Father in Heaven;
To understand His poetry and His prose, to make His very word my covering, my clothes.
I will hide His word within my heart and from His truth I will not depart!
I will trust His promises and His discipline too and live to show Him ever true.
I will surely stumble and likely fall but I will always proclaim Him Lord of all!

Our Siesta Mama is at it again...are you ready...pen in hand, spiral ready, Bible open - minds open?? Let's do this together and memorize our Father's words and all meet up in 2012!

Abiding Still,

Chel