Look at the featured image above.
What do you see?
If you’re like most people, you’d see two triangles planted on top of three circles.
And like most people, you’d be wrong.
As it turns out, there are no circles or triangles in the shape above.
What is perceived as circles are actually three black shapes oriented at different angles.
What is seen as the dark triangle is simply a series of Vs arranged in different ways.
And of course, there is no white triangle at all. You totally made that up on your own!
So, what does this teach us?
People find it easy to remain blind to the obvious.
People looking at the Kanisza Triangle easily see the white triangle that is not even in the picture, yet they miss the Vs that are staring at them.
In the same vein, people look at their environments and only see chaos.
They look at their circumstances and conclude that there’s nothing good that can come out of it.
Yet, right there in the midst of the chaos are opportunities begging to be crystallized.
Little wonder Proverbs 13:23 says, “Much food is in the tillage of the poor…”
The mind hates gaps and when faced with them, will subconsciously create fillers
In the image above, the triangles and circles you saw were not there.
They were creations of your imagination.
In the same way, people have a tendency to make up assumptions about how the world works.
To counter this, you must be humble enough to acknowledge that there will be times when you are working with faulty or incomplete assumptions.
In instances like this, don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for wisdom.
James 1:7 says, ‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.’
Conclusion
Order is the inherent nature of the world God created, and there are still obscured patterns waiting to be uncovered.
Proverbs 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.”
To see these things, however, you must take a step away from crowd-think and hone your skills of perception.
