Spiritual Vision

Today is day 3 of our in depth look at Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible and one that is devoted to thoughts about the word of God. Here is stanza number 3: “Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word. 18  Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law. 19  I am a stranger in the earth; Do not hide Your commandments from me. 20 My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times. 21 You rebuke the proud—the cursed, who stray from Your commandments. 22 Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies. 23 Princes also sit and speak against me, but Your servant meditates on Your statutes. 24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

There is something supernatural about the Bible. The words on the page look like all the other words on pages of books that we would read…except if you read the King James version you will have many more words that end in “eth”…but the words are the same. Even the themes are often the same. But verse 18 gives a clue as to the spiritual or supernatural part of the Bible. “Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law”. Hmmmm…I don’t need God to open my eyes to see the words but I do need God to open my eyes to SEE the words in the way He intends me to see them. I do need spiritual insight so that my regular sight can receive what God intends. This principle is also mentioned in the New Testament. The Bible is not a collection of stories or history composed by man. The Bible is given by the inspiration of God and is spiritually discerned. Pray for God to give you eyes to see His word so you can see and obey the wondrous things in it.

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