Seeing God
StoryIllustration★★★★A young man was desperately seeking God. He sought out a wise old man who lived in a nearby beach house and posed the question: “Old man, how can I see God?” The old man who obviously knew God at a depth few of us experience, pondered the question for a very long time. At last he responded quietly: “Young man, I am not sure that I can help you—for you see, I have a very different problem. I cannot see him.” –(Author Unknown). Quoted in Alice Gray, More Stories for the Heart (Multnomah Publishers, Inc., Sisters, OR, 1997), 227.
Alice Gray, More Stories for the Heart, 227.
The point
Young man asks wise old man how to see God; the old man replies he has the opposite problem—he cannot see him—humorously revealing that spiritual maturity shifts focus from self to God.