Tuesday, October 20, 2009

SIGHT (BELEIVE IN ORDER TO SEE)

To start, let's read Matthew 5:1-30 as an introduction


While reading the Bible I have found something really interesting. And I have investigated a little bit about one of the most important senses in the human body, one that is mentioned repeatedly in the Bible and in several different ways.
It is SIGHT.

In order to do a brief introduction, I am going to share with you several interesting things that I found to do with this sense.
The parts of the eyes are essential for the human existence because they capture, perceive and find what we call images.
-- The brain deals with all the information that enters through our eyes.
-- The eyes have a really important part in the brain.
-- Everything that enters from our eyes goes directly to the brain.
-- What our eyes are unable to see completely, the brain recreates based on previous images that are similar.
-- Our eyes are the windows to our senses.

And we can see how important this sense is to our daily life. Let’s think just for a moment how our life would be if we couldn’t see. Those of us with glasses know how important our sight is and without it we would be extremely limited.

In the same way, the Bible puts a lot of value into sight. So much so that we see really important biblical things based in vision, like:
And we see some situations where sight was really important in order to believe:
  • John 14:8-9 -- They wanted to see the Father (God the Father)
And further on we read about Thomas himself saying something very similar:
And we even see the importance of sight during the Gospels where the people always wanted to SEE Jesus in order to believe in him, and in what he truly shared with them. It was really difficult for anyone to believe in him before seeing him or at least seeing the works that he did (They demanded SIGNS from Jesus)

It was so important that even after Jesus was glorified we are able to find how his disciples talked and gave testimonies to what they had SEEN. We see that in:

Many times we are the same as Thomas.

I have many friends that want to see signs, and they ask me “Why doesn't God show me to that I can also do these things?”.

And many times we aren't able to believe until we see.

We don't believe that God can heal us until we see our bodies healing; we don’t believe that God can provide for us until we find a job. We don’t believe that God can do anything until we see some sign.

But it doesn’t work like this with God. 
The ability to believe in all things before seeing them has a name, that name is: FAITH.
Faith is the way of God. We don't expect to see, but we believe and so we see. In this way we’re able to demonstrate to people what it means to believe like it says in Matthew 5:16. What they could see were good works.

But us, as God’s people, aren't able to sit around waiting to see things in order to act on them after the fact. But instead we must believe without seeing so that the promise can be fulfilled.
What promise?
-- One of the promises is: 1 Corinthians 2:9

God calls us to act without seeing, because the Bible says that faith is contrary to all our 5 senses.
Furthermore, if we think in our well being, everything has to do with this earth and what we see, but all that we see will stay here, and we have to look further and see what we cannot see … see what is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

2nd Part

Now, we must use our eyes intelligently. Because I don't intent to say that now we can't see; the eye is actually one of the biggest doors, as the scientist have proven, that lets things enter into ourselves. And it says this in the Bible as well. Let’s read Proverbs 27:20 and Ecclesiastes 1:8.

And maybe if we think about which is the most used sense that we have, it would be this.
And even Jesus himself puts lots of explicit emphasis about what the eye is.

So what do we see? What does what we see produce inside of us? What we see on TV, on the internet, in the street, by looking at a man or woman?
That is our lamp, and we are full of what we see.

Youth, Men, Women … Let’s be careful with what we see, because there is someone that sees us when nobody else can see us.
In conclusion let's live seeing what has pleased God. We cannot wait to see like the rest of the people in order to believe, rather we must believe before we see.

by Andrés Vargas
Translated by Jessica Foucher

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