Seeing well is key!

To see well is a ministry! We give His Eyes room to look through the lens or our own perception. He looks through us like a lens, and wears us like a suit. We allow Him to heal the earth, by allowing Him to look out through us at what He Himself made.

When we behold something for what it truly is, we inch it towards its true nature and being. To see from our “I” calls forth the other’s “thou”, as Martin Buber might put it.

How deeply we see, is the depth to which we will bless the other into being what it truly is. My gaze is then a gift to you as well. Part of the role of art is to teach us to see well. And particularly. It is both an expression and model of perception. Once we yield our imagination to His incarnation, we become models of seeing. We are vessels of His Perception in our partial ways.

Our own way is in His Way. We discover our vision, but entering His. His Imagination infects and incarnates ours. At first, it is like an infection, because we are not yet made new; then, we start to see as He does more often. We begin not only to feel more of His Heart, and think more of His thoughts, we also start to see more how He sees.

That is the sanctification of the imagination. We are in that process as kingdom artist. His little poems, He desires to pronounce Himself through.

If we truly are His masterpieces as it tells us in Ephesians 2:10, then when we yield our perception, we start to be His cinematic expressions of His Own being. And our own being gets to collaborate in that perceptual becoming….

Most people don’t think of the human imagination as a place of meeting God. But it clearly is. As He is Lord over the whole person, as He is Lord over all of Reality, we are free to meet Him in our imaginations, and be blown away by His.

His manner of perceiving informs a new interpretation of life and what is around us. Our hermeneutics are altered by His Presence in the seats of our imaginations. When we let Christ into how we perceive and thus express, we are able to channel His Own art!

To see from Him into Him is to see deep to deep, spirit to spirit. When I see Christ in you, i am seeing from Him into Him, The sustainer of all things. How we behold matters, and from where!