Through The Window

While leaving a store, I heard a woman say, "I saw it through the window." I paused long enough to glance at the window display to consider what she saw to bring her inside.

Shops try to put on their best window displays to draw in customers. Even large box stores like the mall often lack windows will place displays throughout the store to catch shopper's attention.

Our culture uses the phrase "window of opportunity" to describe a rare and critical moment when an opportunity opens up. God described such a window in Malachi 3:10 when we bring the tithe to His storehouse.

But we don't walk through display cases or windows of opportunity but must go through an open door. And Jesus is our door to opportunities that He wants us to see.

Beloved, there are many things that may tease the eyes and tempt the soul, but God wants us to allow His leading to the greater blessing. Too often we reach for the first thing we see.

As anyone of us know from personal experience, it soon gets old or not used much anymore. It may end up in the trash or a garage sale. Or the quality is so poor that it breaks after a short time. What did we see in it the first time? Sadly, some are asking that same question about a husband or wife after so many years of marriage.

We have to ask God for supernatural sight to walk this journey to look past the glittering and lustful objects. John Bunyan's Christian allegory in Pilgrim's Progress describes a place called Vanity Fair where "...all year round, such merchandise is bought and sold "as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not."

Remember we walk by faith not by sight. So, ask God to show you the eternal things - namely the souls we can show the truth and lead others to salvation.

Keep this Scripture in mind when passing by something your eye catches.

For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. 1 John 2:16-17 (NLT)