If I were to say “look up, look way up,” you were probably a child, growing up in Canada, during the 1950s-1980s, who watched The Friendly Giant children’s TV program.
That favourite childhood show has had a lasting effect on me, for when I look at something that is tall, those five words instantly come to memory.
I often wish I had realized the value and power of repetition when my kids were younger. There is no way of erasing some of the things I was repeatedly exposed to in childhood. The memorization of Bible verses, nursery rhymes and songs. The little sayings my dad would repeat.
It is interesting to me, each time I “look up, look way up,” that there is such a profound lesson in those five words.
A numer of times in the Psalms, there are verses about God looking down from heaven, in search for someone who is wise.
“The LORD looks down from heaven on humans to see if anyone is wise, to see if anyone seeks God” Psalm 14:2
If he is looking down, we must need to look up (look way up).
Perhaps, it is when we are in a position of looking up, that we are in the posture of one who is wise … or at least of one who is in search of the origin of wisdom.
“He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.” John 3:30
look up, look way up
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