7. When the Obvious is Not True

When you sit down in your favourite chair you are at rest and not moving. That is how it looks and that is how it feels. That is what your friends would also think. That is what your mind tells you and logic states. But is it true?

When we think beyond our immediate environment, when we think bigger than the world that we live in, we realise that we are actually moving ... and not just a little, but at a speed that is difficult to comprehend.

Our eyes and our feelings tell us that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but there is a ‘world’ beyond what we know as ‘east and west’. It is actually because the globe that we live on is spinning that the sun which doesn’t move relative to our planet comes into view each day.

We don’t feel the spin, we also don’t feel the speed at which we are traveling around the sun, but we are! If we lived on the equator, our spinning would have us traveling at over 1,656 kilometers and hour while we are travelling around the sun at 107,000 kilometers per hour.

We don’t notice it but that does not make it ‘not true’. There are some people in the world today who live their entire lives not knowing this truth ... and perhaps that does not really matter, but it makes the point that when you consider things from a larger perspective, you may discover that what you thought was true is not ... and perhaps sometimes that really does matter.

There is an argument to be made for what is being small-minded and what is thinking bigger. Perhaps, it would be wise to recognise that the Bible’s perspective could be a ‘bigger‘ perspective.

ARE YOU SURE ... that you are considering your life from the bigger perspective?