A couple of years ago I had to move some stuff for my in-laws so I rented a large moving truck and we all headed up to their house. Of course, my kids all wanted to ride with me so they took turns riding in the big cab with dad. We all had a great time.
As we were riding though, I made an amazing discovery. I asked my son, who was 9 years old at the time, if he would roll the window down. He turned and couldn’t find a button to do it because the truck didn’t have power windows. It was then that I realized that none of my kids had ever seen a hand crank window. Later, I asked one of them to lock the door and again I realized that none of them had ever been in a car without power locks. I had to show them how to lock the door.
I was blown away that their worldview was so “small” because of their lack of experience and it made me think about my own worldview. It must look incredibly limited in God’s eyes.
The truth is that we all desperately need God to expand our horizons. We need Him to show us things we’ve never seen and to teach us thoughts we’ve never thought. I constantly find myself asking God to stretch my thinking and to give me His perspective on the things going on in my life.
It reminds me of the following verse…
What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds! 1 Corinthians 2:9b (CEV)
We don’t really know what is ahead of us but we do know that God has planned some mind-blowing stuff for us if we follow him. I can’t wait to see what He unfolds around the next corner.
I was literally talking to someone about this the other day! Their kid had never seen a power window and it sparked the same thoughts… of course not as greatly articulated.
I was literally talking to someone about this the other day! Their kid had never seen a power window and it sparked the same thoughts… of course not as greatly articulated.
Some other things from that past that some children will never get the pleasure of knowing.
– Rotary Phones – 8 track tapes – vinyl LPs/45s – Party phone lines – manual/seletric typewriters – tuner knobs on TVs – When MTV played nothing but music videos – dot-matrix printers – 5 1/4 floppy disks – camera film – BetaMax/8mm/laser disks – punch cards for programing – Computer languages Fortran/Cobol/Pascal – Commadore64/VIC 20 – OK thats enough for today
Some other things from that past that some children will never get the pleasure of knowing.
– Rotary Phones – 8 track tapes – vinyl LPs/45s – Party phone lines – manual/seletric typewriters – tuner knobs on TVs – When MTV played nothing but music videos – dot-matrix printers – 5 1/4 floppy disks – camera film – BetaMax/8mm/laser disks – punch cards for programing – Computer languages Fortran/Cobol/Pascal – Commadore64/VIC 20 – OK thats enough for today