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One of the worst jobs around the house is cleaning the windows, not because it is so difficult, but because there are so many to be cleaned, and they need to be cleaned often. Doesn't it seem to be the case that as soon as you clean the windows it rains?
Yet cleaning windows opens up the world outside the walls of our homes. Cleaning the windows is like removing scales from our eyes.
"Immediately, something like fish scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again." Act 9:1 God's Word to the Nations
I can't imagine what Saul (whom we know as Paul) felt when he lifted himself off the Damascus' road and couldn't see. We value our eyesight. The one sense that we fear losing more than any other is that of sight. One minute Paul could see and the next he couldn't.
Then God removes the scales, and Saul sees clearly, yet he sees more than the blue sky, green grass and colored garments. He sees Jesus. He sees him with the eyes of faith. So clearly does he see Jesus that he is willing to die for him.
God's Spirit is in the business of cleansing our eyes that we might see Jesus. Today we see him, not with physical eyes but with the eyes of faith.
Seeing Jesus changes life. It changed the course of Saul's life, and it changes the course of our lives.
Because of God's Spirit, we have the power to see Jesus.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
Yet cleaning windows opens up the world outside the walls of our homes. Cleaning the windows is like removing scales from our eyes.
"Immediately, something like fish scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again." Act 9:1 God's Word to the Nations
I can't imagine what Saul (whom we know as Paul) felt when he lifted himself off the Damascus' road and couldn't see. We value our eyesight. The one sense that we fear losing more than any other is that of sight. One minute Paul could see and the next he couldn't.
Then God removes the scales, and Saul sees clearly, yet he sees more than the blue sky, green grass and colored garments. He sees Jesus. He sees him with the eyes of faith. So clearly does he see Jesus that he is willing to die for him.
God's Spirit is in the business of cleansing our eyes that we might see Jesus. Today we see him, not with physical eyes but with the eyes of faith.
Seeing Jesus changes life. It changed the course of Saul's life, and it changes the course of our lives.
Because of God's Spirit, we have the power to see Jesus.
Join the conversation at Praying With the Eyes on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/groups/173881749421231/
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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2013 Douglas P. Brauner. ARR.
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