UP and DOWN

I was walking home from school on Friday when I felt this from God. It had been a tiring week. Endless shepherding. Screwed lab research results. Having to rush from a place to another.......(haha, you get the idea)

So there I was, trudging and dragging my feet when a gust of wind stirred thousands of tiny yellow blooms from the trees. They floated briefly, dancing and swaying before gently setting like a carpet before me. I looked up to see where they had came from, and saw dark majestic trees, their leaves and branches draped with golden blooms. A thought came to my mind: Why haven't I noticed this before?

I have taken the same route each day. The trees had always been there. And yet I have never noticed that they were......beautiful. I had been too busy staring at the ground, at some unfortunate possum lying in the middle of the road, at some piece of gum stuck on my shoe, at some litter on the roadside.

I had been looking DOWN. No wonder I missed the nice trees. No wonder I never noticed the nice view. But on the occassion when I looked UP, I saw the beautiful things.

Very often we tend to look DOWN, and see our bare hands, bare legs, bare wallets, bare pockets, bare whatever, and that is all we see. But look UP and you'll see something better. Trees in bloom, birds flying. A beautiful God. UP there.

Jesus, Beautiful Saviour

God of all majesty, Risen king

Lamb of God, Holy and righteous

Blessed redeemer, Bright morning star

All the heavens shout your praise

All creation bow to worship you

How wonderful, how beautiful,

Name above every name, exalted high

How wonderful, how beautiful

Jesus your name, name above every name, Jesus

- Planetshakers: Beautiful Saviour-