VISION OF THE ROAD AND THOSE UPON IT

VISION OF THE ROAD AND THOSE UPON IT

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Matthew 7:9-14 … what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Mattew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Matthew 9:37-38 Then saith he [Jesus] unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

John 4:35-36  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

John 14:6-7 Jesus saith unto him [Thomas], I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

  Physically vision is a sense that commonly deteriorates among us older folks. I am no exception. I began wearing corrective lens at age 40 and about every 2 years gotten upgraded prescription, and a few years ago surgery to regain working vision in my right eye.

  Physical vision however is not the most important sight. We can have exceptional corporeal eyesight and entirely miss what our Lord sees and in turn wants us to see, and do.

  This morning I read of the horrible recent terrorism in Pakistan. The article included the information that since 2001 sixty thousand Pakistanis have been killed by terrorists. Man murdering man.

  What does God see?

  Do we see as He sees?

  Do we see the bulk of the dead being Muslims “already condemned” (Jn.3:18) due to never trusting in and confessing eternal salvation through Lord Jesus Christ (Jn.14:6; Rom. 10:9-11), a multitude that walked the broad road of destruction thru the wide gate to everlasting suffering in hell? Do we see Muslims in their present condition lost apart from the only Redeemer?

  But we need not go to Pakistan, Zambia, or any other country to present the Good News of redemption and resurrection through trusting Lord Jesus as Savior. We can see the lost in our every day view, and unless we are of timid vision blinded by risk aversion, we tell those within our sight about the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

  What does God see?

  Do we see as He sees?

  As our corporeal eyesight has diminished has our acuity in spiritual vision grown?

  Do we see what He has given us the opportunity to do?

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