Refrigerator Blindness Or, Hidden In Plain Sight

You know what I mean, right? Hidden in plain sight!

Have you ever been looking for something in the fridge, or a closet, or even on a counter top, and you know it’s there, but you just can’t see it? It is there, because someone else can come and show you. They see it, but you don’t.

What about spiritual truths? Truths about life? I “find” it here true too. Sometimes I lose them when I need them.

Occasionally, I find something that I want to learn or think about more deeply. So I hang something in a place I will see every day to prompt me to reflect. For example, I have a list of declarations about who I am from the Biblical perspective that I have placed on my bathroom mirror. The first month or two it was there I read it out loud every day. The declarations became familiar, which was the point. It helped transform how I see myself. It taught me to differentiate between the accusations of the enemy from the truths of God.

Then I stopped. It’s been there for two years. I might stop to read it once a quarter now, but it gets over looked most of the time. Did I learn my lesson? Do I still walk in the knowledge of theses truths? How many times has our Creator taught us lessons that either fade away over time, taking them for granted or we allow them to be hidden in plain sight?

The truths of life are always in existence, but we lose them sometimes, assuming we ever had them in the first place. Or sometimes we forget and mis-place them. The noise of our lives and culture obscure our view of what really matters and we have a case of “refrigerator blindness,”  we can’t see the truth as though it is hidden in plain sight.

Join me in Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 by making it our personal prayer. It is my prayer for you!

“¹⁶ I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,¹⁸ having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might ²⁰ that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.