Psa
105:4 - Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always.
Who do you look to when you need help, or encouragement, or affirmation?
We know the answer should be God, but often we need someone with some skin on. As kids, it usually is our parents. They were the ones we would talk with when we got injured, or had a bad day, or needed advice. Most teens still used their parents, but often also relied on friends at school. While parents often give wiser advice, it's the friends that had more "skin-time". So their advice and encouragement would be what we seek.
As we grow into adulthood, marriage gives us a whole person with skin on to lean into for our problems. Now it becomes our spouse and marriage friends that make a difference in our lives. Our parents become a second set of advisors but it's our partner that has "skin-time" with us.
All that to show that it's "skin-time" that becomes more important when seeking help and advice. Even as we get older and lean back into relationships with family and friends, it was the amount of skintime that dictates our desire to seek their advice.
Unfortunately skin time is not always the best measure of wisdom. Just because someone spends time with us does not make them a proper choice for seeking strength or advice from. We need to discern if they are the right skin to use, and be cautious about what advice we take.
God is involved in all that and sets up the relationships we have. He knows we need people in our life that can advise us properly. But ultimately it is His strength and wisdom that should be the skin we seek. So how can we know him as well as we do our family, friends, and spouse?
The answer is in seeing His skin time with us. He put skin in the game at creation, in creating us, in providing His Word to us, in dieing on the cross, and in putting His Spirit in us. He has more skin in the game than we ever will. We need a perspective of seeing that and seeking Him when difficulties or pain happen.
So who do we look to? Start seeing the skin factor and determine whether the person's character matches your trust. Then look for more of the skin time from God and lean into His Word.
And while you're at it... Be a good skin time person to someone else when they need it.
Who do you look to when you need help, or encouragement, or affirmation?
We know the answer should be God, but often we need someone with some skin on. As kids, it usually is our parents. They were the ones we would talk with when we got injured, or had a bad day, or needed advice. Most teens still used their parents, but often also relied on friends at school. While parents often give wiser advice, it's the friends that had more "skin-time". So their advice and encouragement would be what we seek.
As we grow into adulthood, marriage gives us a whole person with skin on to lean into for our problems. Now it becomes our spouse and marriage friends that make a difference in our lives. Our parents become a second set of advisors but it's our partner that has "skin-time" with us.
All that to show that it's "skin-time" that becomes more important when seeking help and advice. Even as we get older and lean back into relationships with family and friends, it was the amount of skintime that dictates our desire to seek their advice.
Unfortunately skin time is not always the best measure of wisdom. Just because someone spends time with us does not make them a proper choice for seeking strength or advice from. We need to discern if they are the right skin to use, and be cautious about what advice we take.
God is involved in all that and sets up the relationships we have. He knows we need people in our life that can advise us properly. But ultimately it is His strength and wisdom that should be the skin we seek. So how can we know him as well as we do our family, friends, and spouse?
The answer is in seeing His skin time with us. He put skin in the game at creation, in creating us, in providing His Word to us, in dieing on the cross, and in putting His Spirit in us. He has more skin in the game than we ever will. We need a perspective of seeing that and seeking Him when difficulties or pain happen.
So who do we look to? Start seeing the skin factor and determine whether the person's character matches your trust. Then look for more of the skin time from God and lean into His Word.
And while you're at it... Be a good skin time person to someone else when they need it.
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