{"id":300185,"date":"2025-06-18T05:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/seeing-the-unseen-%c2%b7-the-young-life-leader-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:19:34","slug":"seeing-the-unseen-%c2%b7-the-young-life-leader-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=300185","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Unseen \u00b7 The Young Life Leader Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"selective attention test\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJG698U2Mvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Before you read this, watch the video above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somebody once told me that whatever you focus your attention on will determine\u00a0what you are missing most. Last summer, when I was on my sabbatical, I asked the Lord for a scripture that would be our Young Life region\u2019s theme for the year. He gave me 2 Corinthians 4:18.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBecause we don\u2019t focus our attention on what is seen but on what is unseen. <br \/>For what is seen is temporary, but the unseen realm is eternal.\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite><em>2 Corinthians 4:18 TPT<\/em><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Lord revealed to me that\u00a0he wants us to have <em>eyes to see<\/em>. I don\u2019t know how many of you have seen the video on YouTube (watch above) of two groups of people interacting in different\u00a0colored shirts. When I watched this video for the first time I was in class and the professor asked \u201cDid you notice the gorilla?\u201d When he played the video again there was a gorilla in the video that I had not noticed.\u00a0<em>How did I miss\u00a0that?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the gospels, you can see how Jesus was always doing the extraordinary among the ordinary. God wants us to stay so focused on Jesus that we would not miss everything that\u2019s happening around us. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the 2 things I believe we need to pay more attention to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The \u201cunseen\u201d in our ministries.<\/p>\n<p>2. The unseen in our own lives. <\/p>\n<p>We all know that Jesus is moving and he\u2019s doing amazing things, and many times those amazing things are happening right in the midst of the ordinary. My hope is that at the end of the year, we will be able to share with each other how we encountered Jesus Christ in our daily lives! 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