Turn it On

2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)

I remember when we got our first television set. It was sometime in the late 1940's and it was a large, boxy thing with a screen smaller then the one on this old laptop I am using now. The picture was in black and white as color had not been invented. We moved out the old stand up am/shortwave radio from it's living room position and moved in the latest technological marvel.

Unlike the hundreds of channels available today all day and all night, our television would only pick up a couple of channels and only during a rather limited period of time. When the stations were not broadcasting a show, they sent out a test pattern. Anybody remember what that looked like?

When the television is turned off we cannot see anything on it. But when we locate and then pick up that remote control and press the on button all is visible and we have access to anything available.

Perhaps our life in the spirit is similar. We make a decision to believe in God and that He sent Jesus to live amongst us, to live and die for all our transgressions. We turn on our spiritual eyes when in faith we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.

He opens up a whole new dimension of life for us. We see beyond the current situations in our lives and on to what is to come; what is eternal.

Before we turned on the switch, the television set was blank. Before we turned on Jesus in our lives reading the Bible was a chore with nothing gained. It was like reading a textbook in a subject we really had no interest in.

After we found Jesus and let Him into our lives, reading became a joy. Unlike TV, there are no reruns! The Bible all of a sudden has hundreds of channels and each time we read it something new pops out just for us, for our current situation, and to propel us into our eternal life journey.