Sunday, March 22, 2020

22 March 2020 - light and joy



Not as man sees does God see,
because man sees the appearance
but the LORD looks into the heart.

We have a superficial way of looking at things. We become preoccupied with factors that we imagine to be very important. When this happens, we miss the deeper reality and we don't see into the heart. Let us learn from Samuel. He shows us not to move too quickly. Rather we are to wait on the LORD to reveal his choice. 

It is too easy to start out seeking the LORD but then begin to make decisions on our own, not really listening to him anymore. There may have been something in the appearance or lofty stature that made a choice seem right to us.  This shows that we can lose the inspiration with which we began midway, not realizing that we've deviated from the path of the LORD, still assuming the initial justification is present. When the initial inspiration from God to anoint a king becomes conflated with our own ideas about what seems impressive to us, we can make the wrong choice and not realize we ever departed from the initial impulse. We can begin in the Spirit but end in the flesh.

“He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”

Some of us see things more clearly than others. But we are all spiritually blind in some way. Today the LORD invites us to come to him so he can open our eyes. When our eyes are opened, when we wait for the LORD's revelation rather than following our own instincts, we find the people and situations that the LORD is anointing.

and from that day on, the spirit of the LORD rushed upon David.

The main thing that made the Pharisees blind was their inability to recognize Jesus. The man born blind had his physical eyes opened. But even more than that, his spiritual eyes were able to recognize Jesus. 

He said,
“I do believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him.

Let us learn to watch for the LORD's anointing, for the people on whom and the circumstances on which the Spirit is rushing. We can then be in the places we need to be to receive the grace that the LORD is offering. We can get, as the saying goes, 'under the spout where the grace comes out.' May our eyes be opened to the one the LORD has chosen to be King of kings. May the eyes of our hearts track him even as he moves invisibly and by grace through our lives day to day. As he reaches out his healing hand to us may we reach back to take it.

You were once darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light

Jesus himself is the light that enlightens us. He is the one whose by whose light we walk without stumbling. He is the one with us in the dark valley teaching us not to fear. His Spirit himself is the anointing. May he rush on us today.

Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
With your rod and your staff
that give me courage.





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