Treasure Table | The Question That Changed Everything
Adjust Your Lens
Treasure
I spent most of my life believing The KING was trying to fix me. I did not know what I did not know.
Holy Spirit was faithfully shining The Light so I could adjust my Agreement into Alignment with who The Father says I already am in Christ.
Sometimes The King changes our lives by gently refining a single question...
Curiosity
Last week as I watched my daughter walk toward her groom, I found myself crying happy tears.
I also found myself quietly praying, “Abba, help them to keep loving each other well in all seasons of life.”
A question settled into my heart.
What kind of relationship does The KING actually delight to build?
That question had me reflecting upon nearly thirty years of marriage…
Personally, I had spent twenty years sincerely trying to build my marriage from the lens that something was fundamentally wrong with me. I was asking The KING to “Fix me.”
If something was difficult… Fix me.
If I hurt and did not know why… Fix me.
If I misunderstood… Fix me.
If love felt distant… Fix me.
I truly believed becoming “better” would produce the fruit I longed for. Looking back, I can now see that even then, The King was lovingly pursuing me.
Understanding
Then, about nine years and nine months ago, the King gently introduced a different question.
From… “Fix-me.”
To… “What’s Good About You?”
At first, I could not answer. I had spent so many years looking at what was wrong with me that I had forgotten to look for the Treasure the King had already placed within me.
The question was an invitation to begin seeing myself through The Father’s Lens.
Agreement
As that question settled into my heart, something unexpected happened. I began seeing Scripture differently. My lens was beginning to adjust.
My assumption shifted from I needed fixing… Instead, I began reading the Bible as someone:
Already loved.
Already held.
Already being completed by the One who began the good work in me.
Alignment
The more I learned to receive The KING’s love… The more secure my identity became… The more freedom I had to bring into:
every belief,
every relationship,
and every understanding
into The Light before The King. Putting my Trust in His Finished work, allowing Holy Spirit to gently continue renewing my mind. Little by little, coming into Agreement with The KING.
Fruit
Looking back, I see two distinct seasons.
Twenty years of asking The KING to “Fix me.”
The last nine years and nine months discovering The KING had been faithfully inviting me to look through His lens, “What’s Good About You? the image bearer I created?”
Those two questions have produced profoundly different fruit. One kept me on the hamster wheel of performance attempting to fix what I thought was wrong. While “What’s Good About You,” was inviting me to discover the Treasure The KING had already begun revealing leading me to His Freedom.
Invitation
What question are you living from? The questions we live from quietly shape the lenses through which we see:
Ourselves…
Others…
The King...
As I watched my daughter and son-in-love begin their marriage, I realized the greatest blessing I could pray for them was that they would grow to know more deeply how much each of them are loved by the King. When we receive His Love:
Holy Spirit faithfully shines The Light.
Our minds are renewed.
We increasingly agree with how The Father sees us in Christ.
His Love fills us and naturally overflows into one another and the world around us.
Bible References:
Genesis 1 — created in His image.
2 Corinthians 5:17 — new creation.
Romans 12:2 — renewing of the mind.
Colossians 3:10 — renewed according to the image of the Creator.
2 Corinthians 3:18 — transformed by beholding Christ.
Philippians 1:6 — the Father faithfully completes what He began.
Ephesians 1:3 — our Sonship