I couldn’t see the birds. For a few years now I’ve had a lovely comforter. I picked it out because I thought it was very beautiful. It is a bit busy though because it’s covered with flowers and foliage. After over five years of owning this comforter, I looked down this morning and was surprised to see something new. No, it wasn’t really that anything had happened to change the comforter itself, instead the comforter was exactly as it had been the day before and the day before that. As a matter of fact, it was the same as every day I had owned it. However, there was something I hadn’t seen before. The truth is that I had not really seen it fully, I thought because I had looked at it, I had seen it. That I recognized all of it. When in reality I had not really seen what I was looking even after gazing at it so many times. To my surprise there wasn’t just flowers on the comforter but there were birds. How can it be that something I bought over five years ago, something that I’ve owned for some time and looked at hundreds of times if not thousands of times, I did not fully know?

It’s simple really. First the pattern is busy. There is so much to see when you look at it. It is not simple. If you look it from different angles, different lighting you will see different things. Also, my focus was not really on the details. When I looked at it, I only glanced at it, I didn’t really study it or observe it. I realized thinking about this experience that there is a lesson to be learned here. There is a lesson for us as believers.

God is vast and his depths are beyond our imagining. Through his word and his spirit, he reveals himself to us. Yet, we can look at him our whole life though and keep discovering more of him day after day. Much like with my comforter so it is with God. Each time we look at Him, we see God and he reveals different aspects of himself we learn more. We experience his fullness, his truth, and his presence in new ways. He is the same God; we are just seeing things that have always been there, but our eyes did not fully recognize them. Maybe we couldn’t because our perspective had to be different. So, we should just keep looking, because there’s more to discover when it comes to God and all he is.

We also have to make sure we consider our focus. When do we really see God? We see him when we focus on him. First Chronicles says that we should devote our heart and soul to seeking the Lord our God. In James 4 it says to come near to God, basically focus closely on him, and he will come near to you. If you seek him, you are promised that you will find him when you seek him with all your heart. We are to focus on God, to look to him. We are to study and discover the great depths of who God is. We will only discover if we focus fully on Christ.

There are birds to discover if you will, greater depths and truths and lessons to be learned. There are deeper waters to dive into if we dare to step out further into who God is, to look more closely at Him and discover.

Don’t just think because you have been a believer for a long time that there is not anything new for you to learn or discover about the Lord. There is no end to the discoveries God will reveal to you about himself if you remain a seeker always. I challenge you today if you haven’t looked in a while at his word or spent time with God to look again. Reconnect with Christ. If you find yourself distracted by everything around, you be intentional and put your focus on him. You will not regret it. If you are already looking, keeping looking, there’s more to see. The Bible tells us if we seek, we will find and if we knock the door will be opened. Keep seeking, keep knocking, keep discovering more and more about our Savior. There is more there to see than you can ever imagine or know. Take another look and see what you will find.