God's Vision
God sees through different eyes than the world. His vision is pure and lovely and clear and perfect. His vision is love vision. His vision is pure power. He is Love and that is the way He sees us. He doesn’t look at things the way the world looks at things. He sees people and value in them. He doesn’t see what they can do for Him. He sees their worth as individuals.
God’s vision is one of redemption and wholeness. He sees us as His again, bought with the blood of His Son Jesus Christ----redeemed at last, free, delivered, once again His own. We have been bought with a price, the highest price the Father could pay, the blood of His Son.
Without God’s vision, we perish, we are made naked, we have nothing and are nothing. In fact, that is exactly what Proverbs 29:18 says: “Where there is no vision (no redemptive revelation of God), the people perish (are made naked)." When we don’t understand Who God is and what He has done for us, we perish, and we are naked, devoid of anything of value or worth because He is our all in all.
Paul prayed for us in Ephesians 1:18 that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened or that the eyes of our hearts would be flooded with light. He was talking about us understanding God and His Kingdom. Oh, yes, it is possible to do just that very thing. God wants us to be able to understand Him. After all, He is our Father. We are His children. He wants our hearts to be overflowing with His Light; He is Light. He said in Genesis 1: “Light, be.” In other words, I Who am Light be in this earth. And the earth was filled with Him. He wants us to understand how He operates, so that we can imitate “papa” and be exactly like Him.
God wants our eyes to be opened to turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God Himself (Acts 26:18). He wants us to open our eyes to behold wondrous things out of His Word (Psalm 119:18).
It was a sad day for the Lord when the man and woman He had created, submitted to the deception of the devil and hooked up with him. Three things happened to Adam and Eve when they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (1) Their eyes were opened to evil. Their eyes were opened in the wrong way. It was never God’s intent that they know anything about the devil’s ways of evil from the devil’s perspective of tricking them into submission to him. I fully believe that God would have explained the ways of evil to them, if they had waited on their Father to talk to them about it. He is a loving Heavenly Father. And, if He thought it was best that they never know about evil, that would have been OK also. They should have allowed their Father to handle it. He had given them an instruction to obey. Their disobedience opened up the temptation of the whole world of the devil and his evil ways. (2) They knew they were naked. They perceived that spiritually first. They realized that the light of God’s glorious presence on them was gone. Then they saw physically that their bodies were no longer clothed in that presence. They looked for something to cover them. (3) They were afraid. (Genesis 3:7,8)
This is the condition of the world today without God. They are open to evil. They are not clothed in God’s robe of righteousness. They are full of fear.
Unfortunately, that is the condition of too many Christians. They don’t know that they are righteous and can walk in a new way with the Lord because they are back in their rightful position of being right with Him again through Jesus (righteousness). They don’t know that they are royalty in the Father’s household, with all the rights and privileges of the household. They are full of fear of so many things----cancer, heart attacks, terrorism, losing their jobs, families falling apart. They are in no better place than the people of the world, except they are going to heaven, which is a wonderful thing to know. But, oh, the benefits of serving the Lord while we are right here on this earth.
My prayer today for you is that you will take on God’s vision and understand the hope to which He has called you, the richness of your inheritance, and the very resurrection power that God has given you, which seats you far above all principality and power and all earthly titles and names. Hallelujah!
God’s vision is one of redemption and wholeness. He sees us as His again, bought with the blood of His Son Jesus Christ----redeemed at last, free, delivered, once again His own. We have been bought with a price, the highest price the Father could pay, the blood of His Son.
Without God’s vision, we perish, we are made naked, we have nothing and are nothing. In fact, that is exactly what Proverbs 29:18 says: “Where there is no vision (no redemptive revelation of God), the people perish (are made naked)." When we don’t understand Who God is and what He has done for us, we perish, and we are naked, devoid of anything of value or worth because He is our all in all.
Paul prayed for us in Ephesians 1:18 that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened or that the eyes of our hearts would be flooded with light. He was talking about us understanding God and His Kingdom. Oh, yes, it is possible to do just that very thing. God wants us to be able to understand Him. After all, He is our Father. We are His children. He wants our hearts to be overflowing with His Light; He is Light. He said in Genesis 1: “Light, be.” In other words, I Who am Light be in this earth. And the earth was filled with Him. He wants us to understand how He operates, so that we can imitate “papa” and be exactly like Him.
God wants our eyes to be opened to turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God Himself (Acts 26:18). He wants us to open our eyes to behold wondrous things out of His Word (Psalm 119:18).
It was a sad day for the Lord when the man and woman He had created, submitted to the deception of the devil and hooked up with him. Three things happened to Adam and Eve when they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (1) Their eyes were opened to evil. Their eyes were opened in the wrong way. It was never God’s intent that they know anything about the devil’s ways of evil from the devil’s perspective of tricking them into submission to him. I fully believe that God would have explained the ways of evil to them, if they had waited on their Father to talk to them about it. He is a loving Heavenly Father. And, if He thought it was best that they never know about evil, that would have been OK also. They should have allowed their Father to handle it. He had given them an instruction to obey. Their disobedience opened up the temptation of the whole world of the devil and his evil ways. (2) They knew they were naked. They perceived that spiritually first. They realized that the light of God’s glorious presence on them was gone. Then they saw physically that their bodies were no longer clothed in that presence. They looked for something to cover them. (3) They were afraid. (Genesis 3:7,8)
This is the condition of the world today without God. They are open to evil. They are not clothed in God’s robe of righteousness. They are full of fear.
Unfortunately, that is the condition of too many Christians. They don’t know that they are righteous and can walk in a new way with the Lord because they are back in their rightful position of being right with Him again through Jesus (righteousness). They don’t know that they are royalty in the Father’s household, with all the rights and privileges of the household. They are full of fear of so many things----cancer, heart attacks, terrorism, losing their jobs, families falling apart. They are in no better place than the people of the world, except they are going to heaven, which is a wonderful thing to know. But, oh, the benefits of serving the Lord while we are right here on this earth.
My prayer today for you is that you will take on God’s vision and understand the hope to which He has called you, the richness of your inheritance, and the very resurrection power that God has given you, which seats you far above all principality and power and all earthly titles and names. Hallelujah!
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 7:58 PM
<< Home