Perspective Clash

It is interesting how Christ's perspective and our religious/carnal/fallen perspective clash so diametrically. It gives one a great deal of pause when we come to His words as recorded in the Gospels.

Take the interchange between Him and the woman at the well about water. She talks of physical water, Christ talks of spiritual water. They are not even talking on the same plane of reality.

Water is a parable of the true reality in Christ. How often do we take the true reality and physicalize it. There is often talk of spiritualizing, but what of its opposite? Physicalizing is coming to the reality of Christ from man's perspective: vain reasonings, worldly, earthy...

There is understanding that something is a metaphor and then there is truly understanding. There are many analogies, parables, metaphors, etc... that Christ uses, but what if we still take them illusory rather than in reality?