What’s the most spectacular thought you have ever come up with? Was it original? Was it based on experience or feeling?
Since Writing last many places have experienced the me I have to offer. I’ve hugged the results of wrong choices having aged those in years not days. I’ve bought hours of help from a homeless man for the price of most of a jar of peanut butter. I’ve danced to the sounds of a dark city night. What did I leave behind and how did these experiences make me more or less me?
Five senses are what we are told we function with on a regular basis but recently I’ve been told we have many more. Hunger, time and proprioception are a few. The one most intriguing to me was simply labelled the sixth sense. This sense is not scientific but personal. Its as personal as God is to you in your everyday life. Its as unscientific as miracles. This sense is what makes it imperative for you to be you!
In the beginning Gods very next action after speaking stuff into existence was to take time on it. He hovered (Gen 1:2). I get the impression God likes to spend his valuable time on the stuff He makes. Regardless if he can pop everything into action instantly or not, he doesn’t. He hovers. The Bible doesn’t say how long or why but it does make special note that he did. I believe this is where the sixth sense comes into play.
Lets look at this unscientific sixth sense:
Its the foundation of the other senses but only kicks in when the others have come to the end of their capabilities. God has designed us to function primarily on our own. Breathing, thinking and feeling are examples. Yet every once in a while we some how surpass what we know we’re capable of. Raising tough kids, surviving a heart break with peace or experiencing a formidable standing ovation for the first time are examples. We forget how we fell in love with the one beside us as we survive that angry teen, We realize how perfect our current love is and forget the pain of the less than perfect previous one, and we forget how lonely yet peaceful we felt when we stepped foot on that stage. That sixth sense was always there, in the beginning so as much as the end. Yet we forget. Its not science, Its our God continuing to hover with us.
We stay away from fire, we smell fresh flowers, eat fine cuisine and listen to the sounds of our day through our ubiquitous five senses so how do we experience this sixth sense? I’m finding it to be quite difficult. Personally I’m created with a great mind, as we all are. This being said I use my mind in almost everything I do, including things that surpass my mind. I compare priceless personal attributes and values with things I have given value to, which in turn, lessens the most valuable pieces of me. As a result I limit myself. I forget that God is hovering so close and wants to share his personal touch on those around me, through me. This is the edge that becomes dull when I only recognise my five senses. This is the purpose of the sixth sense, to make God look good when we simply become ourselves.
There is a we in all of us.
God wants to show us our sixth sense. Consistently, personally, intimately show us who we are. When I say we I don’t mean you and I and the others around us. I mean to say the sixth sense has a mind of its own. Gods mind for us. I should say We from now on when I talk about myself but that may get confusing and may lead to you questioning my sanity. While we’re thinking together here though, if you’re interested at some point, Ill introduce my voices to your voices so we all can be in the same conversation instead of arguing amongst ourselves. You think this is funny, don’t you?! Its Not!
We’ll explain.
In Proverbs 9 it opens up with suggesting wisdom as being a person. If this person were to have a voice and we were to listen to it I believe it would sound allot like what it sounded like in the beginning when God created everything. I would suggest he’s still speaking in that voice while he hovers around us. Any time anyone verbalises scripture, if we hear it with our sixth sense we hear God. Any time we step out of the immediate world we live in and use that sixth sense we hear Gods intimate voice for us. When we hear something loud and we cover our ears we learn the capabilities of our sense of hearing. Proprioception is another sense, it shows us how our body works with itself. Combining hearing, the sixth sense and proprioception we listen to a friends problems, hear Gods voice of love and somehow exude something past ourselves. Some people call this wise insight, simple love or maybe loyal friendship. I call it being the you God created you to be. The imperative you!
The you you’re not.
You are not insignificant, alone, incapable, obsolete, forgotten or unloved.
We write this knowing how capable you are. You and I may disagree on a few details but what you cannot disagree with is that you are beautifully and wonderfully made. God and I are working together on showing everyone their sixth sense. God put it in you when he breathed life into your soul simply so he can enjoy hovering with you. So go be you, everyone else is taken.
Rock on!
David Snader 