World Lenses

I've often wondered about how unsaved people view the world. And by that I mean what sort of lens do they see? A moral one? A "Do what you want" type of lens? I'm beginning to realize there are only two ways to view the world: Christian, or non-Christian.
I know that seems really simple, so let me put it this way.
When it is completely dark around you, you don't know what sort of dangers are near you, or what your surroundings are. You have the basic knowledge of what is up, down, left or right, but you have no clue what direction is north, south, east or west. You can have all of your opinions about which way is north, but there is no certainty, or any way you can prove that the way you are looking is in fact north. To me, this is why the world believes in relative truth. In the mind of the world, if we are all in the dark, truth (Or to continue the example, direction) can be anything you want. Eventually some of the those relative truths will get close, but it will never be the absolute truth.
When you accept Jesus into your life, the bible tells us we are then filled with the Holy Spirit. And our mind becomes free and we began to see the world in the light rather than in the darkness. Now that we can see everything in the light, we begin to see all of the dangers, traps, cliffs and other things harmful to us. Because we see, we avoid these things, but those in the dark blindly stumble into those traps because they don't know any better.
Now, to continue the use of directions as an example. Since we as Christians are in the light, we can see our compass clearly and thus we understand north is north because our compass says so and not just because we feel a certain way or we say so. In a Christian's life, their compass should be the bible, has to be the bible. Now that we can see that murder is a sin and bad, not just because we feel that way and think it's bad, but because the Bible says so.
As a Christian myself, I have noticed when someone is going to attack Christianity or a certain thing Christians believe, they most often go after the Bible first. This is because if a man in the dark, and a man in the light are debating about which way is north, the man in the dark will obviously try to say that the man's compass is off kilter, that it is pointing in the wrong direction. Once the man in the light is without his compass, he loses any sort of advantage he has and is then trying to use logic and reasoning to find out which way is north, which is infinitely harder than using a compass.
There are those as well, who try to pick and choose from the Bible. To them I say, do you pick and choose from a compass? If you agree north is north, and south south, all is fine and well, but if you think that east is west and west east, you will be all twisted up and not able to go the direction you intend and you will end up lost.
It is either all of the Bible, or none of it. There is no in between. And hopefully now you see it is good to study the Bible, because a Christian without their Bible is like a hiker without a compass. You can stay on the path for so long, but when a fork in the road comes, how will you know which way to choose?

A Poem. Although I Couldn't Think of a Title.

You wear your scars on your wrist.
I hide mine in my heart.
You've embraced your mistakes,
While I only deny, deny, deny...
I've been told the scars which show,
Are worse than those that don't.
But at the end of the day,
Scars are still scars,
No matter where they are.
And people are still people,
no matter what they've done.
So don your scars,
Wear them with pride.
They're apart of you now,
And they will be til you die.

Do we need a preview?

Often times when there is a movie coming out in your favorite series, or an album from your favorite band, you don't need a preview of it to go see it, or buy it. For example, if they came out with another set of movies based in Middle Earth, but apart from the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit, I would go see it. I'd probably try to even make the midnight premier. If you have seen similar things before, more often than not you trust the new one will be good, or at least worthy of your time and money. So then if we trust God enough to follow him, why do we ask God for a preview when He asks us to go someplace, or to do something?

To be honest this is something I have struggled with before and still do. I want to do things beneficial to me, from my standpoint, and when God comes to me and tells me to do something. I tend to ask for a preview of it, for a trailer so I can see what is going to happen, if it's going to look worthy for my time. In a way, we already have a preview of what God will do because he has most likely worked in your life before and it most likely turned out to be what was best for you. I find this all ironic in a way because my favorite chapter in the Bible is Hebrews 11, which is the hall of faith. It's message is faith, and how those who are written about walked by faith, and didn't ask God for a preview, but rather did before they what they were actually doing.

The one example I immediately thought about was Abraham. He was living in a completely different country, in a far away land, and he didn't ask question, he just got up and left. I wish I could do that. I feel like instead of following faithfully, I would make excuses like the man who wanted to go bury his father first. Jesus saw right through his excuse and called him out on how he was trying to delay his following of Christ until it better suited him. But as I'm starting to realize, the time is now to start following God. Not after college, not when you're "better prepared", but now. God will use your weaknesses for his glory. And in that thought I find comfort.