TME FOR AN EYE TEST?
08th Nov 2017
We have our eyes tested about every two years to see that they are healthy, and to note any changes in vision. We want to see clearly and need to. Blindness leads to limitations and dangers; in fact is a totally different way of life.
We read in John chapter 1 of the first meeting that Peter and John had with Jesus. They had listened to John the Baptist’s affirmation of Him; intrigued they ask Jesus where He is staying and he replies, “Come and see.”
These words can be taken as a straightforward, come and see where I am living, just a friendly overture; but I believe they saw more than the natural, and recently I have found myself reading these verses with a renewed challenge.
In John 6, Jesus talks more about seeing beyond the physical into the supernatural realm where so much more is happening, but about which we are mostly blind. In verse 19 Jesus declares that He only does what He sees the Father doing.
So, I find myself crying out to God to put salve on my eyes so I can see, and His answer is, “Come .........and see, draw close, spend time in My presence, enjoy Me, let Me open those eyes so you can see what you need to see.” I know that is the key to being an instrument to bring the work of Father into the world we inhabit.
Paul prays in Ephesians 1:17-23, “I ask the God of Glory to make your eyes focussed and clear, so that you can see exactly what he is calling you to do...”
In Acts 14:8-10 we see Paul in action in Lystra; there is a lame man listening to the message, and then as Paul sees him it says, “Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At the the man jumped up and began to walk.”
That’s it, not hit and miss, but on target so the glory of God is revealed in healing and deliverance. That is my prayer and what I reach out to in faith every day.
by Joyce Sibthorpe
