Seeing is Being (3 of 4)
Real. Messy. New.
Craig Smith
Luke 11:34-36
I want to talk to you today about improving your life by improving your vision. For the last few weeks, we've been in a series called Real Messy New and we've been talking about the fact that God says if you want to change your life, that begins by changing your mind. Because our thoughts determine our lives. But of course, changing the way we think isn't easy and today I want to talk to you about changing the way you think by changing the way you see. About improving your life by improving your vision.
So let me just ask you a question before we get started today: how's your spiritual vision? Do you see things the way God sees them or do you struggle to see things the way God sees them? Or maybe you don't really know. We don't always know when there's a problem with our vision.
Back when I was a youth pastor at a church in Ohio, we were loading the church van to go on a mission trip and I had one of my guys named Danny helping me pack the luggage. And I was on top of the van because we had a big car-top carrier and I looked at the luggage on the ground and I was like, Danny, throw me that green suitcase. And Danny hands up this bright red duffle bag. And I went, "very funny. The green one." And he hands me up like a brown leather one and I went, "dude, we don't have time for this. We got to get going. Hand me the green bag." And he picks up pink bag and I went, "Danny..." and he goes, "this isn't green?" And I said, "No." And he goes, "I think I might be colorblind!" Now, I have no idea how he got that far in school without someone catching it, but apparently up to that moment, Danny thought the way he saw things was how everyone saw things." I guess he just looked at the crayon box and thought "I don't know why they put so many of the same color in the box, but whatever..." He didn't know that how he was seeing things wasn't the way other people were seeing things.
And that ...
Real. Messy. New.
Craig Smith
Luke 11:34-36
I want to talk to you today about improving your life by improving your vision. For the last few weeks, we've been in a series called Real Messy New and we've been talking about the fact that God says if you want to change your life, that begins by changing your mind. Because our thoughts determine our lives. But of course, changing the way we think isn't easy and today I want to talk to you about changing the way you think by changing the way you see. About improving your life by improving your vision.
So let me just ask you a question before we get started today: how's your spiritual vision? Do you see things the way God sees them or do you struggle to see things the way God sees them? Or maybe you don't really know. We don't always know when there's a problem with our vision.
Back when I was a youth pastor at a church in Ohio, we were loading the church van to go on a mission trip and I had one of my guys named Danny helping me pack the luggage. And I was on top of the van because we had a big car-top carrier and I looked at the luggage on the ground and I was like, Danny, throw me that green suitcase. And Danny hands up this bright red duffle bag. And I went, "very funny. The green one." And he hands me up like a brown leather one and I went, "dude, we don't have time for this. We got to get going. Hand me the green bag." And he picks up pink bag and I went, "Danny..." and he goes, "this isn't green?" And I said, "No." And he goes, "I think I might be colorblind!" Now, I have no idea how he got that far in school without someone catching it, but apparently up to that moment, Danny thought the way he saw things was how everyone saw things." I guess he just looked at the crayon box and thought "I don't know why they put so many of the same color in the box, but whatever..." He didn't know that how he was seeing things wasn't the way other people were seeing things.
And that ...
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