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When I was little, my brother came home from college and being the curious child I was (ok, I was snooping!) I started looking at his books he had brought home with him. One of those tomes was an anatomy book and one photograph was the human heart.
I can remember the time it took me to come to the realization that the human heart did not look like the heart I was familiar with, you know, the valentine day's heart!
I was confused, not willing to believe what my own eyes showed me. This was what the real heart looked like, not the cupid inspired version in my mind's eye.
Eventually, I came around to the real thing, and my false perception was left behind in the dust.
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God decided through the nonsense of our preaching to save those who believe. Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:21-24)
And so, the human denies what his eyes and ears tell him. He sees the power of God to save, the change in people's lives and still denies. He cannot change his false perception of the world and see what God has given him.
The question is, what perception do you carry? Do you accept the changes the Lord has made for your life? Of do you walk away sad as the young man whose possessions shaped his perceptions?
That is the question-what is your perception.
Think on it.
By the way-here is what a real human heart looks like:
When I was little, my brother came home from college and being the curious child I was (ok, I was snooping!) I started looking at his books he had brought home with him. One of those tomes was an anatomy book and one photograph was the human heart.
I can remember the time it took me to come to the realization that the human heart did not look like the heart I was familiar with, you know, the valentine day's heart!
I was confused, not willing to believe what my own eyes showed me. This was what the real heart looked like, not the cupid inspired version in my mind's eye.
Eventually, I came around to the real thing, and my false perception was left behind in the dust.
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God decided through the nonsense of our preaching to save those who believe. Jews ask for signs, and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:21-24)
And so, the human denies what his eyes and ears tell him. He sees the power of God to save, the change in people's lives and still denies. He cannot change his false perception of the world and see what God has given him.
The question is, what perception do you carry? Do you accept the changes the Lord has made for your life? Of do you walk away sad as the young man whose possessions shaped his perceptions?
That is the question-what is your perception.
Think on it.
By the way-here is what a real human heart looks like: