What Is Unseen Part I - Fighting An Enemy You Cannot See

Hey there!

I hope everyone's having a good week, I'm sure you can imagine mine's been eventful, that's to say the least after what I've shared with you all so willingly. Some may say I was too loose-lipped to do this, but I find an audience better able to receive you when they see where you've come from and what you're going through in order to see where exactly it is that you are going.

I take great pride in sharing my opinions, as if that's not obvious from these broadcasts and their accompanying devotionals. But what I want to do is to show you that there is always another way to do life than get stuck in circumstance & consequence.

It May Just Rain

Let me start off with a song and see what you reckon, okay?

Let's just, for a moment, take a look at how this song starts because this starts off exactly on the angle that I want to take: -

Can you help me out, can you lend me a hand?
It's safe to say that I'm stuck again
Trapped between this life and the light
I just can't figure out, how to make it right

Do you see why I chose this now?

How many times have you felt that confused that you just did not understand what was going on? Or why things were happening the way that they were?

This is a simple admission that you've messed up, got it wrong, bad things have happened to you and you're stuck, you feel hopelessly lost battling against an enemy you cannot see.

It could be your feelings telling you that your negative doctor's report will come to pass. Or maybe your best friend has let you down and you want to walk away from them. It could even be a financial lack that you're stuck in.

I've spoken, in the past, about having a certain perspective that helps you maintain your course and your staying power and all of that is true again.

Let's just recap on the verses that I used in this week's broadcast: -

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Cor 4:17-18

'We look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen' - Quite a powerful statement to make, don't you think?

An Invisible Foe

Have you ever tried to fight something that you cannot see?

Like when a bee gets into your house and all you can hear is the buzzing sound, but try as you might, the sonuvagun is just too quick for your eyes to catch up to.

I have... only in my case it was a bluebottle fly and I hate when that happens! >:-(

You can be sat on your computer working away and then all you hear is an annoying buzzing sound, yet whenever you lift your head to see where the fly is, you cannot see it as it's moved on.

Then it goes quiet... so you go back to working and then it starts again!

I dunno, maybe I do have problems keeping my focus sometimes, but it's still annoying nonetheless and I'm going to admit something here... sometimes I just want to get the nearest aerosol and a naked flame and burn that sucker to the ground! :-D

It's exactly the same principle with life as sometimes distractions will occur causing us to do one of two things: -

1. cause us to lift our heads from what we are doing, thus breaking our concentration from the task at hand; or
2. cause us to do nothing and take it all in our stride

I must admit that my reality is often interspersed by the former and unless I go back to said task quickly enough, my concentration is broken enough that I will not want to carry on and instead will go on to do something else.

Final Thought

That's not always a bad thing especially when the thing that comes along distracts you from something that's unhelpful, or just plain nasty!

In part two of the devotional, I'll look at how we can hopefully be more akin to taking the other route, to take life all in our stride as just events that happen. Nothing more.

Peace off!