“SEEING!”

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 459
January 14, 2020///

Yesterday morning I stood in my closet looking for a particular shirt! It just was not there! Knowing I had just washed it a few days before and hung it up, I looked on the floor, through the shirts again and then walked away not understanding what had happened.

I went back to the closet to get a different shirt and in one last try looked where I knew it should be and it was there.

Did it miraculously appear the second time I looked? Of course not! I just did not see it the first time even though I looked carefully.

Now, I’m not going to try to say that the enemy of all that is good caused me not to see my shirt, but I am going to tell you that the enemy of your soul, the devil, will blind you to the truths of God’s word and who you are in Him and what is going on around you.

The Bible warns us about seeing correctly or seeing with eyes that have been anointed by the Lord Jesus. Or seeing with Spiritual eyes, if you will!

Matthew 13:16 (KJV)
But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:16 (MSG)
But you have God-blessed eyes—eyes that see! And God-blessed ears—ears that hear!

Jesus tells us here in Matthew that eyes that see are Blessed! Well unless you are physically impaired, if you have eyes, you see. Jesus was talking about seeing through eyes that see as Jesus sees. Eyes that see people as they can be and not as what they are doing.

Jesus was talking about seeing yourself as He sees you and understanding who you are in Him.

But the evil one, the devil, does not want you to see truth and so we are inundated with lies and deception to the point we think it is the truth.

Mark 8:18 (KJV)
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Jeremiah 5:21 (KJV)
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

Deception starts out as a tiny seed planted in our mind. Then we grasp it and begin to act like it is true!

When I look around at those who claim to be the children of the Creator God, I feel like we are in a time like Ezekiel spoke of! We are living in a time of great rebellion against God and His word. Even among Christians we sometimes find attitudes of wrong is right and right is wrong!

Ezekiel 12:2 (KJV)
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

We need to pray like Elisha did when he was surrounded by the enemy and his servant was expressing concern.

2 Kings 6:17 (KJV)
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

Elisha prayed and the servant was then able to see they were surround with the army of God ready to fight for them. What a concept. May we pray that we and those around us can see with the spirit and understand that the Greater on lives in us and that His truth will override the lies and deception of the world around us.

In the message John was given to the churches in the book of Revelation part of the message to the church at Laodicea, which was the church that was neither cold not hot, should be our prayer for ourselves and others!

Revelation 3:18 B (KJV)
and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

We must pray that our eyes are anointed with the eye salve of the word of the Living God and the truth that we are created on purpose for a purpose. The truth that sets us free and obliterates the lies and deception of satan ever time.

Oh, what a difference seeing with Blessed and Anointed eyes makes! We could approach each day with assurance that we make a difference in this world. We can see those around us a created vessel of Almighty God even when they are not acknowledging Him.

We can see our adverse circumstances as God sees them and understand “If God be for us who can be against us!”

LORD, OPEN OUR EYES THAT WE MAY SEE!!

Father, you are truth and you are right, and you fight our battles. May each of us see with Spiritual eyes the truths that will set us free! Open our eyes and anoint them with your truth! I decree and declare it in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Amen!

Let God open your eyes! Love, MeMaw