It’s Easy to Put Off Observing
View all responsesYou can’t appreciate what you won’t observe. You are probably overlooking a lot of things. Look and see!
True faith is much more than merely believing in the existence of God. True faith is to continually observe, experience, rely on, and obey God’s presence and reality. To dare to courageously see what you’ve been unwilling to see about where you stand with God is the first step to a better life.
Train yourself to observe, obey, and openly surrender your heart to God. No one can explain or understand God, but everyone is invited to surrender to and daily rely on His presence.
When you begin to notice, observe, and cooperate with what God is saying and doing within you, your life will soar to a new level. By using the power of observation, you can see God tracks all around you and even within you. Look and notice! No one can explain or understand God, but everyone is invited to surrender to and daily rely on His presence.
Dare to set aside your agenda, your plans, your program, and your desires. Then observe what Jesus does. God observers are overcome with awe and love for Him. Be one. Be aware. Listen, wonder, ponder, and observe what God is saying to you.
Observe what religion (not the Bible) calls “The Lord’s Supper.” It was a full meal that Jesus shared with His 12 closest disciples. It is described in four books in the Bible — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and 1 Corinthians.
The meal took place around a table not at an altar. Jesus spontaneously interrupted the meal to use two of the items to describe His coming crucifixion. He took bread, blessed it, broke it, and passed it around the table for His disciples to eat. He told them that the bread represented His body.
Next Jesus took wine, thanked God for it, passed it to His disciples, and they all drank some of it. Then He told them that the wine represented His blood of the covenant (a reality shifting commitment that God made to humanity) which was about to be poured out for many. Jesus also told His disciples that He wouldn’t drink any more wine until He drinks it in the kingdom of God, but He told His disciples to do so in remembrance of Him.
Jesus interrupted His final supper with His disciples and focused on the bread and wine as a way of helping them to observe and notice the significance of His coming death. Two thousand years later interrupting a meal to savor some bread and wine could be a powerful way to remember Jesus and how He used a meal to help prepare His disciples for His coming death.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone spontaneously interrupting a full meal (like Jesus did) to use bread and wine as a way to help people focus on and remember Christ’s sacrifice. Perhaps we should try it.
What do you think people would do if in the middle of a meal someone said: “Hey everybody. Let’s remember what Jesus said about the bread and the wine. Let’s take a moment to focus on them. Let’s pass them around and partake of them together so that we can remember Jesus and His death. Let’s also remember that He rose from the dead and is present both inside of us and with us at this very table.” Perhaps routine religion has over formalized what Jesus did with bread and wine.
What you observe
You will preserve.
Always reserve
Room within you
For awareness
Of God’s presence.
Refuse to swerve
Away from His love.
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