Spiritual Vision

Spiritual vision is seeing through God's eyes what is around us. It is our perception and our focus and determines how we live as believers. Over and over Jesus' vision went way beyond a glance. Jesus saw the crowds. He saw the harassed, the helpless, the bleeding, the rich, the poor, the religious, the one caught in sin, the prodigal, the possessed, the searching, the proud, the beggar, the desperate, the broken and the sick. He did not ignore, pass by or minimize what He saw. He was not pumped-up, heady, or self-centered because huge crowds surrounded, saw Him, or followed Him. He saw them! 

Jesus didn't just glance at them or walk on past them. He sat down and taught them, he reached out and touched them, he stooped down and held them. Jesus healed them, heard them, offered forgiveness to them, stopped, and gave them His love, time, and His hope. In Genesis 16:13 Hagar said, "You are the God who sees me...I have now seen the One who sees me." Hagar got it! She understood what vision from God does for your life as a believer. We have to be so consumed that all we see is God. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, we realize that He sees everything clearly and only He can give us the ability to see like He sees. This brings peace and the realization that no problem is too big for the one who sees us (Heb. 12:1-3)! 

Do we see God like Hagar did? Do we see people like Jesus sees them? Do we need Him to change our vision?  Matthew 9:35-38 says, 'Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field."'  May God help us see people with compassion and vision for what they can be in Him.

 

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