What Do You See Over the Horizon?

August 24, 2025
 
Reflections from the Heart of Allan Redenius
Isn't it funny how, as you grow older, your horizons change?
  
As a boy on the farm, life was all about getting up at the sound of the rooster’s crow and just having fun for the day.  Climb into the haymow of the barn and embark on a treasure hunt for a new litter of kittens.  Sometimes the hunt meant swinging across a great chasm of hay on the rope that hung from the top of the barn.  Then off to the rabbit hutch to see if there were any new baby bunnies.   Look in the brooder house to check out the baby fox pup.  Never could get the wild out of this one.  Off now to the cow tank to rescue honeybees swimming in the water.  Never could figure out why these guys thought they should swim instead of fly.  Finally, the day was done and, in the dark, I would lay on the grass, look up, see the Milky Way, and watch the Russian Sputnik cross the sky.  Life was simple and my horizon was only as far as I could see. 
    
After a move into town, my farm adventures became precious memories.  Now a new thing entered my mind, a longer-term horizon came into view.   At age thirteen, I left my boyhood behind and decided it was a lot of fun to make money, go to the bank downtown, and watch the bank teller write my deposit into my passbook savings account.  What was even more fun was, every once in a while, the bank would give you free money just for having a deposit at the bank.  It was called, interest.  I discovered then that there are two ways to make money.  There is “hard money,” money you work for, or “easy money,” money that works for you without you working, as in interest. 
 
For a long time my goal, my horizon, was to make money.  After a while, I discovered that living your life just to make money was a pretty short-term and unrewarding horizon.  Now that I'm older and have placed all of my trust in the Lord, I no longer look to the horizon for what is coming.  I now look for what is coming from beyond and over the horizon.  What do I see coming from beyond and over the horizon?  Jesus coming for you and me.  That, my friends, puts everything into perspective.
 
There is a legend that the tiger can see over the horizon.  I so want that kind of vision.  I think it's called God's wisdom.
 
Living life for the Lord,
Pastor Allan
 
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