Look Up

The bedroom was finally clean. Clothes were in their place. Carpet vacuumed. Admittedly, it had gotten out of control with the busyness of my life. I laid down on the bed to take a little break and enjoy the peace of an ordered room. As I reclined to relax, my eyes caught sight of spider webs that had been built where the walls met the ceiling. It's funny how when the room was dishevelled the spider webs were not in my vision whatsoever. Once I began to order my immediate surroundings-once the area within my grasp was no longer vying for my attention, I was able to fix my gaze at that which was higher then my normal level of sight. As it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual. When we begin to order our life and tidy those things in our sphere of influence, only then can God lift our vision to the things that His wants to show us. Details that would have remained hidden had we never cleared the clutter of life from in front of our eyes. So many times we desire to look up and see the power and provision of God, but we have neglected to order our life that is right in front of us. The frustration comes when we try to jump over present to reach a hold of the future. The word of God says, "The steps of a righteous man are ordered by God" (Psalms 37:23). That tells me something very important: That our steps have an order! You can't take short cuts. You can't jump over the undesirable ones. In order to stay on the path, every step is vital.