Emphasis Preaching Journal

You might go down to a railroad station and look at the shining bands of steel on which the train travels. Today, of course, they might be rusty bands! But if someone asked what you saw, you would say, "I saw the railroad tracks." Really, you didn't. What you saw was one little section of tracks that stretch for thousands of miles from east to west, north to south. Or you might stand on the shore of a river or of the ocean and look out over the body of water. "I see the river," or "I see the ocean," you'd say. But again, you didn't.