Is Your Ability to See God Blinded?

February 10th, 2014 by JDVaughn Leave a reply »

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things . . . —Isaiah 40:26


The people of God in Isaiah’s time had blinded their minds’ ability to see God by looking on the face of idols. But Isaiah made them look up at the heavens; that is, he made them begin to use their power to think and to visualize correctly. If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms, and every leaf that fades, if we will only begin to use our blinded thinking to visualize it.The real test of spiritual focus is being able to bring your mind and thoughts under control. Is your mind focused on the face of an idol? Is the idol yourself? Is it your work? Is it your idea of what a servant should be, or maybe your experience of salvation and sanctification? If so, then your ability to see God is blinded. You will be powerless when faced with difficulties and will be forced to endure in darkness. If your power to see has been blinded, don’t look back on your own experiences, but look to God. It is God you need. Go beyond yourself and away from the faces of your idols and away from everything else that has been blinding your thinking. Wake up and accept the ridicule that Isaiah gave to his people, and deliberately turn your thoughts and your eyes to God.One of the reasons for our sense of futility in prayer is that we have lost our power to visualize. We can no longer even imagine putting ourselves deliberately before God. It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others. The power of visualization is what God gives a saint so that he can go beyond himself and be firmly placed into relationships he never before experienced.

 

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February 10, 2014-JDV

Lord, I would truly like to live the words to the song …”Let them see You in me”. But I am afraid that I spend too much time and energy just trying to keep myself on the “straight and narrow”. I spend too much time trying to find my own blessings and opportunities…. to find my own way.  Lord, please help me to be connected to You so that I can surrender my own notions (and perhaps even the notions of my church) about how to live day to day to day. Help me be connected to You so that I can become a man after Your own heart.

And God says…”You can be connected to Me by simply giving up your ideas of how to work, live and love. Trust Me with your minute by minute, hour by hour day by day steps of living.  Seek Me first in all you take on this day: Your work, living, loving, giving….all of it, and I will give you everything else you need. You do not need to know any of the answers in advance, I know the answers, your role is to trust Me; and to trust that I will keep my word to you.  How can you fail to trust a God that gives up His own Son?  Delight yourself in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart.  You can help them see Me in you, by simply trusting Me to live through you as you surrender. “

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