He would say it to me on a Sunday morning looking out our window into our back yard. “It’s strange”, he said, “right now I see everything outside in portrait mode as if looking through the camera in my phone.”
And I suppose it’s almost natural when much of your time is spent “hunting” for content pics for the ever-writing-wife. When the lens thorough which you use regularly becomes the norm for how you “see life”… everything changes.
I would think about a friend who has been bird-watching as of late, and the beautiful images she posts of the daily treasures she captures through the educated click of the camera. Her trained eye… beholding beauty… her focused vision changes everything!
And I am reminded of Hosea 6, verse 3, “Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of the dawn of the coming rains in early spring.”
It’s our “pressing on” to know Him that stirs Him to respond.
It’s our “daily pursuit” of His nature and character that ushers in His glorious presence.
Oh that we would be so preoccupied by the pursuit! All in, and absorbed in knowing Him, trusting Him, and following hard after Him.
It is because he has trained his eye to see a certain way that my husband is predisposed to capturing impeccable images. It is because she has chosen a most excellent subject to fixate upon, that my friend is inclined to apprehending exquisite photographs.
And all of this can only happen because we are preoccupied by the pursuit.
This characteristics of this kind of pursuit include:
- commitment
- dedication
- hard work
- steadfastness
2 Peter 3:18 says that we are to, “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
It’s not a one and done thing.
It is a continuing on… a pressing forward… a leaning in… a chasing after Him.
To know Him… and be known by Him.
To know Him… so that He will surely, “respond to us… as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”
Let us be preoccupied by the pursuit.
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