Walking as a Christian: Our Five Senses - Sight

    I would like to finish up this year of Faithfully Flourishing with a small, 5-lesson series that explores bible verses that pertain to our five senses (if the Lord wills we will look at one sense per week) and how to use them to seek God and walk properly in His sight. Let’s begin this week with our sense of sight.

“Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.” (Psalm 66:5 NKJV)

    At some point in your life, either directly or indirectly, someone said to you, “Come and see the works of God.” Maybe it was a parent, grandparent, or relative, maybe it was your spouse, a friend, neighbour, or coworker, maybe it was a stranger, a posted ad, or an invite to study the bible, but someone encouraged you to open your eyes to God and His wondrous work.

    God has blessed people with sight, even those with vision impairment or loss can have their spiritual eyes opened to His great goodness (Psalm 119:18) because in His light, we see light (Psalm 36:9); we can see and know the proper pathway that leads to Him (Psalm 119:105, Matthew 7:13-14). Our loving Father sent His Son to be the light of the world (John 8:12) so that we could see the way out of the darkness of sin and have hope (John 1:4-13; 3:16-21).

“My voice You shall hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning I will direct it to You, and look up.” (Psalm 5:3 NKJV)

    Once we have had our eyes opened, we need to keep our eyes focused on Jesus to avoid falling back into old sinful habits (Colossians 3:1-18) and to keep ourselves moving forward in the “race” (Hebrews 12:1-2, Philippians 3:12-16). We, as Christians, are to grow and flourish (2 Peter 3:18, 1 John 2:3-6) because going dormant (not progressing) will result in spiritual shortsightedness and even blindness that will cause us to stumble (read and think on 2 Peter 1:5-11). We need to value our gift of sight and use it to God’s glory by reading and studying (1 Timothy 4:13, 15-16, so we can do what He says, James 1:21-25), seeing the needs of others (Matthew 25:34-46, 1 John 3:17-18; 5:16, Titus 2:3-5) and sharing our blessings (2 Corinthians 9:7-11) so we can benefit others and tell them of God (Matthew 5:14-16, 1 Peter 2:9)!

“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” (1 John 3:2-3 NKJV)

    We have hope, when this life is over, of seeing God the Father and His Son as they are! We need to keep ourselves pure, starting with how we use our sight (consider Psalm 101:3a and Matthew 5:27-30, we know this applies to women looking at men as well). Let’s appreciate our sight and use it to draw closer to God, to learn from His word, and to see His goodness in the world (Psalm 27:15, Romans 1:20, Hebrews 11:1, 3)! And let’s let our faith develop so we can be like the patriarchs who saw God’s promises afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and desired that better, heavenly country (Hebrews 11:13-16) and, like them, let's look eagerly for Jesus’ coming (2 Peter 3:13-14, Revelation 1:7) anticipating when our faith will become clear, flawless sight (Psalm 17:15, Revelation 22:4)!!

You can do it! So can I!!