Imagine your self in a glass box, as you look around there are no other glass boxes in view, all you see is a vast emptiness of nothing. The only opening you can see is a wooden door, which will not open for you. You sit on the ground unaware of what is yet to come. As you sit in the nothingness your breathing becomes short and your anxiety climbs each second of quietness.
"Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong." ( Job 6:24 New International Version)
In this space of quietness, you have time to reflect on what you really wished you had inside this glass box. At first, they are material goods, things you can purchase or replace.
"Then he said to them, Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions." ( Luke 12:15 - New International Version)
You stand and pace awhile thinking about things in your life that are not a possession, things you can not replace. You think of things that make you laugh and smile, instead of things that make you sad, stressed, and/or angry.
You hear a voice whisper to you: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." ( Matthew 7:7 English Standard Version)
As your focus becomes clearer on what is really important in your life, these images start to appear on the glass walls around you. Imagine in your life what would appear on your glass walls.
“Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for
the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.” (Proverbs 3:
12-14 - English Standard Version)
You sit again in the middle of the glass room and finally have clarity, these images that surround the glass enclosure is what makes your life rich and not the possessions you covet.
Upon this realization, the glass walls all shatter around you and you feel a sense of peace.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy
and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in
and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
(Matthew 6:19-21 – English Standard Version)
In life, it is easy to put on horse blinders and not see what you have and only what you have not. I accept the challenge to remove these blinders and thank God for what I do have and even though it is not what I want it is what I need.
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