Eyes to See

First, if you haven't already, read the post "Shock and Awe." The excerpt I included from The Chronicles of Narnia describes how perception is skewed by the desires of the heart. Desiring God results in the desires of our heart being changed, making us hungry for and finding desirable what is good, revealing what we once thought was good as rotten, maggot infested garbage, leaving little question as to why we were sick. In the presence of God, we are as children in the arms of their parent - safe, loved, protected, fulfilled. Knowing God yields the humility that the most powerful force in the universe, creator of the heavens and earth, the most creative and masterful of artists, not only knows your name, but calls you his child.

Truly, one would have to be blind not to see him given such overwhelming evidence. However, like the witch, blindness is caused by a shroud of evil which originates in the heart. Facing the evil inside, crying out to be saved from the darkness, lifts the shroud, revealing such sight you can hardly breath, leaving you speachless, finding no words that could possibly communicate such wonder. Having gained such sight, there is also remourse, realizing that despite the crowds of people around you, you are one of the few who can see the obvious, such that you may wonder if perhaps you are halucinating.

Psychosis (a condition in which a mentally ill individual lives within their own obviously fictional reality) is the end result when society accepts relativism as the norm. To deny absolutes is psychotic, just as denying laws for the common good of man is anarchy, or denying the laws of science absurd. For example, the result of one who chooses to reject the truth of the law of gravity, choosing to believe they can fly, then jumps from a building, will meet reality head on as their head smashes like a pumpkin on the concrete. The only superman was Jesus. It is only in him one can fly.

In every academic discipline, every construct of thought, and every evaluation of historical validity, the life, claims, and truth of Jesus are the most consistent. Galileo, Socrates, Einstein, etc. are remembered historically as ahead of their time but were persecuted while they were alive because the truth they discovered was so strange to their peers. What confirms the reality of what I have and am seeing, what I have learned and continue to learn, that I'm not hallucinating or imagining it, is the same undeniable, verifiable consistency of the truth. Jesus could not have been an ordinary man or even an exceptional teacher. His life proved him to be anything but ordinary and his claims were either true or a lie; if they were a lie, he was not a good teacher at all - he was a lunatic.

Truth is stranger than fiction, meaning the fact I see the truth, am defined by it, and define reality in agreement with it, lead the blind to believe I'm also crazy, as if I live in some fairy-tale reality of my own making. The blind believe if they can't see it, it is not "really" there. Reduced to the challenges of understanding and navigation intrinsic to darkness, they wander through life bumping into obstructions and each other, falling into holes, and getting lost in the woods. It would be funny if it were not so sad, especially when they say I'm seeing things.