We have a tiki room. It’s quite cool. It has a fountain, and bamboo, and birds and monkeys and fake flowers. It has everything. It’s really cool looking, it even has a bar. When we first bought our house we thought it was really cool. Sadly it is now mostly ignored. We use it as a drum room and a computer room. It hardly ever is used as a party room, maybe every once in a while.

The point of me saying all of this is that I think this applies in more than one area of our life. “What applies?” you ask; the fact that we ignore our surroundings, beauty, and exciting things. We lose interest in what once was enthralling. With our tiki room we thought it was exciting and enthralling, we figured we would use it for parties all the time. Obviously that is not happening.

That’s how life is. We find something exciting and fun, a new hobby, a new friendship, a new electronic item or a new tiki room. A while later we lose interest. The hobby is to hard and not exciting enough, the friend becomes annoying, the electronic item stops working all the way, the tiki room becomes a computer room, and drum room. What we need to do , I think, is that we need to refocu our attention at times. We have to go back to that thing that intrigued us, and view it through that old lens again.

This applies to our walk with God to. We start out, enthralled with what God is and can do, but soon we lose interest. Rather than being amazed by God’s power, we use him only when we need him. We use him to take away our pain, or we think he is just there to tell us rules. We need to refocus on God as the most amazing creator of everything. We need to look at him through our old, or rather young eyes again.

God is amazing, try to never forget that. Try to keep him in your eyes as an enthralling creator and never let that go.