What Is It Like To See With The Eyes of Faith?
Good Morning Friends,
Not having spiritual sight is the norm these days. It can be a matter of belonging to a church that preaches walking by faith which is born of spiritual vision, yet living as if faith is non-existent. We claim to serve the God of all authority and power, but we trust our own ways rather than His. Maybe we are not focusing on the right words. Maybe we are not seeing with the right eyes. You see there is another set of eyes that God gave us in order to see the things of heaven and allow us to live supernaturally. These eyes are spiritual but the images they produce are real and vivid. And so the focus of today’s devotion is a meditation on this question: What Is It Like To See With The Eyes of Faith?
Scripture: Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Genesis 1:3 (NRSV)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:17 (NIV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:25-27 (NRSV)
Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:40 (NRSV)
Message: Scientist now think that four thousand years ago the ancients did not see the color blue because they had no word for it. This is interesting because creation began with light and the seven colors of the rainbow radiated from the first rain. So why does naming something suddenly makes it visible? Is naming our God the same way. Does naming something bring it into the reality we perceive? At creation it was light that divided the darkness. For us as humans, when all of the components of the eye function properly, light is converted to impulses and conveyed to the brain where an image is perceived and interpreted or “seen” as an image. One might say that the true organ of vision is not the eye but the brain. So it follows that a renewing of the mind might help us to see. What is projected by the brain as a result of the messages coming from the eye is the image that we “see” and perceive as real. So from a spiritual sense unless we live in the light of God, we will not have the ability to see the plan and purpose of God for our lives. One way to know that we are is the quality of our relationship. Friends, love is the gauge that determines if we are living in light or darkness. Once we have the light of Jesus Christ, our renewed minds are now receptive to the images God wants us to see. Our spiritual eyes of faith become activated and we can now truly see as clearly and as positively the things of God. The word of God paints the picture of God’s plan and purpose for us. When we meditate on his word, we can see ourselves victorious, successful, triumphant, healed and prosperous. Without the knowledge of the word, it is not possible to see our full potential because we can see only what our natural abilities can do. The word of God puts the “super” in our natural, the result is that we can see new ways that were once hidden.
Pray we receive the light. Pray we put our trust in the light. Pray we live in the light. Pray we renew our mind so that we see as God would have us to see. Pray
we realize that it is the work of God’s love that colors the tapestry of our lives. Pray we realize that it is the act of love of the Master’s brush that paints us into His ongoing work of creation. Pray
we help to make a part of our world just a little more beautiful. Pray we bear Christ’s colors and His light to the world.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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