EYES THAT CANNOT SEE ……Bill Thoughts For Today…

Understanding important truths from the Bible….

Matthew 13:13-14

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 

¹⁴ In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,

‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;
You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

They looked and saw a leader of the Jews.

He looked and saw a man who needed a new birth.

They looked and saw an undesirable Gentile.

He looked and saw one hungry for the true bread.

They looked and saw a man possessed.

He looked and saw a man who would be an evangelist.

They looked and couldn’t see.

He looked and saw a man in a tree.

They looked and saw a derelict prodigal.

He looked and saw a repentant son.

We look for education, talent, and dress.

He looks for faith, hope, love, these three.

O that we can see as He sees.

For otherwise having eyes to see, we are blind.

Jesus in Matthew 13:13-14 impresses on the readers of Scripture the great danger of having divine truth available and ignoring it.  Unbelief can be no more than failing to see truth and being convinced by it.

Please read I John 3:18-19

Along with this is our attitude as we look at the people around us.  Ordinarily we look for beautiful people.  Why is this?  The people with whom Jesus spent His time were not desirable.  They were cheats, crooks, prostitutes, and undesirable people (Gentiles).

It has been my experience that poor, needy, and unreached people are the most difficult.  All lost are equally lost.  Salvation is the result of the work of the Holy Spirit.  No one is more difficult to God than another.  But -and this is an important distinction – some are more demanding and difficult with the time invested being less fruitful.

We don’t see John Bunyan before Grace Abounding.  We don’t see the thin, unattractive, unassuming Indian who now heads up a church in his part of India.  I didn’t see the youngest of four sons, small, lonely, and slightly crippled.  But I heard of him later.  First, a drunkard and then dead as a result of a drunk-driving accident.

Would it have made any difference if I had seen him?  I’ll never know, will I?  I hope you can tell what I see bothers me.  I would like to see Zacchaeus with a new heart, and the returned prodigal with a new life.  I know this, I must look differently.