Line of Sight

The movie; The War of the Worlds, released a few years ago with Tom Cruise is a great example of how the smallest of things end up making the most significant impact. A typical Sci-Fy thriller, the movie is about aliens who apparently had been planning the attack for generations, arrived and just started tearing good old planet earth up.

The movie ended abruptly when, also apparently, the alien who was in charge of research for the invasion, failed to note that the earth had microbes that when ingested by the aliens would kill them, thus ending their plans for world domination ... 00ppsies!

It's the smallest of things that build or destroy.

There is an old saying; 'If everything matters, then nothing matters.' There is a lot of truth to this statement when it comes to planning strategies and executing initiatives. Basically the idea here is if everything is a big deal, then you'll never really know when you're confronting a big deal.

Now - this statement is NOT true nor has any place when it comes to people. With people everything matters ... everything.

Last week while driving into the back side of the Cherry Street parking lot, I noticed four people standing down at the end of the block. All of them are people being served by one or more of our ministries. One of the four individuals was Linda (not her real name). Linda is one of the neighborhoods prostitutes (what she does, not who she is) and as I stood and watched, she was clearly 'working' the group of guys she was hanging with.

As is my habit, I began walking down the block toward the four who had already noticed me watching them and they all began to walk to the next block. I called out; "What? No Good Morning Mr. Rogers?" "No, how are you today?" "How is your family?" "Nothing?" "You're just going to walk away and leave me hanging?"

One of the fellows, who I know quite well, Mr. Smith (not his name), stopped and we began to dialogue about his life where he was going not just today, but the next few days and not just about where he was going geographically, but mostly how many 'corners' did he think he had left until something, someone or some bad would befall him.

We also talked about Linda. I asked him if he cared enough about this young lady to not use her - did he care enough about himself. I asked did he realize she is a daughter of our neighborhood like he is a son.

Here's today's question; "What's regularly in your line of sight you've been ignoring?"

Maybe you've not been ignoring it. Maybe you've been watching all along the thing going on in your neighborhood, your family, your friends marriage - your own life. But what to do? What is the right approach? You know somethings not right. You can feel it, taste it - sense it. It's keeping you awake at night. Sometimes it's troubling you so much you can't think through even the smallest of daily routines.

It - whatever it is, has made it into your line of sight.

You're in trouble and you know you're in trouble. To ignore it is starting to become less and less an option. In your prayer and worship life, you know God sees it to - it's in His line of sight ... it's always been in His line of sight. Now you realize that you and God are seeing the same thing at the same time. You begin to feel how disturbed He is by it and you realize it's not the thing distracting you, keeping you awake at night, interrupting your daily routine ... it's God.

Because people matter. Everything people do, matters.

Need help? By attending the next Biblical Rescue Intensive, you'll learn about you and what God says about you in relation to others and the trouble that you're in relative to your line of sight. The questions plaguing you have answers.

July 22-24. To register, email Crystal at somaministries@sbcglobal.net. or my direct email is danrogers@cherrystreetmission.org.

Let's clear up your line of sight,
Dan