I was hanging upside down on my dad’s inversion table when I saw on the wall one of those old 3D posters that you can see a hidden image in if you look at it funny or cross your eyes, or something. Then I remembered how I used to try and see the picture, or rather, I started to remember the technique I used.
If I got up real close to it, crossed my eyes, stared a little bit, crossed my eyes, and then backed away slowly with my eyes crossed. Sometimes, I could make out the hidden 3D layers.
Doesn’t that sound a bit ridiculous?
Then I started thinking.
What other seemingly silly, if not ridiculous, techniques have people told me they used to see the hidden image in those 3D pictures? I often doubted there was even an image there, more than ever if other people claimed to see it and I couldn’t.
Seriously, what proof did I have that they could see the image? It’s just a jumble of colors and shapes. Not to mention the answer is on the bottom of the poster. How do I know their “stand on one foot and tilt your head sideways while blinking as fast as you can” routine really wasn’t just their trick to read the answer on the bottom and tell me they saw the magical hidden image of a happy unicorn dancing on a rainbow.
Then I started thinking.
Do you ever feel like your doing this when you’re reading the bible or trying to understand God?
Squinting? Cross-eyed? Hanging upside down?
Do you ever feel like this especially when you don’t get it and others seem to? Doesn’t that just really make you doubt they actually know what’s going on and that they’re just making stuff up?
God isn’t a magical hidden image of a happy unicorn dancing on a rainbow on some psychedelic “3D” poster, and sure, the bible isn’t the easiest text to read, but so often we wonder just what we’re looking at.
Why is it so hard for us to see Him? Why is it so hard for us to understand the scripture sometimes? Why does it feel like we are just staring at something hidden beyond our capable perception?
