Two pairs, one pair to keep out of oncoming auto, to check if I am overpriced at the counter. Of course it helps me take in the local colour but I don't take them with me when I rest for the night. The other pair my inner man wears. My waking fear is that his eyes do not develop defects or are jaundiced by whatever I do while awake.
The natural man or carnal mind will have and does have its own prejudices etc ,but we aLso have the " eyes of our understanding" ( Ephesians) the natural may well see but does not understand what it sees . " the devil has blinded the minds of them that believe not " Faith in God comes when we not only hear but understand the Word of God when we ' see' what God is getting at .
When Eve rejected the Words of life that came from Gods mouth as to what was good to eat and evil and believed the seed or word of the serpent . " she LOOKED at the tree and saw it was good to eat" her perceptions were now corrupted and she reasoned this " it wouod make her wise" so too her reasoning . But Gods perception was that it was evil to eat and wouid bring them death .Thus they did that which was goid in their own eyes and were blind tothe consequences .
Jesus came he declared from Isiah to " restore sight to the blind".
As John Newton wrote " once I was lost but now am found was blind but now I see"
And how many scriptures speak of having eyes to see and ears to hear etc?
When Paul prayed from those Christian's in Ephesus and indirectly for us he acknowledged that Christian's can also be blind in some areas and it is still relevant that prayer . For how much power is needed to raise someone from the dead? And how much do we know of it? But a little Ithink. Yet that great and mighty power is towards us who believe but are often blind to it .GB
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When Eve rejected the Words of life that came from Gods mouth as to what was good to eat and evil and believed the seed or word of the serpent . " she LOOKED at the tree and saw it was good to eat" her perceptions were now corrupted and she reasoned this " it wouod make her wise" so too her reasoning . But Gods perception was that it was evil to eat and wouid bring them death .Thus they did that which was goid in their own eyes and were blind tothe consequences .
Jesus came he declared from Isiah to " restore sight to the blind".
As John Newton wrote " once I was lost but now am found was blind but now I see"
And how many scriptures speak of having eyes to see and ears to hear etc?
When Paul prayed from those Christian's in Ephesus and indirectly for us he acknowledged that Christian's can also be blind in some areas and it is still relevant that prayer . For how much power is needed to raise someone from the dead? And how much do we know of it? But a little Ithink. Yet that great and mighty power is towards us who believe but are often blind to it .GB
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