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Sight

20/20

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I have an eye exam scheduled for today. I prayed for healthy eyes . . . and now I am here. You know why don’t you?

Healthy eyes.

My eye doctor can access the quality of my vision, he can measure eye pressure, he can prescribe corrective lenses to give me 20/20. And I am delighted and grateful that he can and I am expecting he will. But 20/20 and good eye pressure and no eye disease looking out this window onto my street is not all there is to healthy eyes. At least not for this present writing piece.

What about my soul sight? How does my soul see? Does my soul’s eyes have 20/20? 

What about my spirit sight? How does my spirit see? Does my spirit’s eyes have 20/20?  Tricky question, huh? We think the humble answer is no, right? But is it?  

16 Now the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 The sight of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. source Exodus 24

If I were an artist I would draw their faces with larger than life opals and high-pitched brows and mouths making O shapes all around the camp. And quickly two hands covering faces of peeking amazement. Can you see it: the Hebrews in awe of the sight of the glory of GOD?

I’d like to gaze at this a while.  LORD willing we will revisit this another day. 

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Christian Living

Nary a Hiccup

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Glorify.

John 17 (TLV) 17 Yeshua spoke these things; then, lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so the Son may glorify You.  source 

A simple definition: To make glorious, or cause so to appear

So as I see this JESUS was asking the Father to cause it to be so that JESUS would appear (to the world, to us) as Who He really is. 
And why did He want to do that?
Could it be so He would be enabled to cause the Father to appear as He is, you think?

Now.

Does not the Word say we, you and I, are to bring glory to GOD?

1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV) 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.  source 

There it is in orange and white.

So everything you and I do  – e v e r y t h i n g – even our eating and drinking, day-to-day stuff we have to do to live in this world stuff, all of it we are to do in such a way that we make GOD known doing it!

Now how in the world are we going to do that?! 

Perhaps we should follow JESUS example; after-all He did get the job done without nary a hiccup! 

This wordier definition of glorify helps me understand. I hope it will you too.

A wordier definition: To glorify God is to extol His attributes—His holiness, faithfulness, mercy, grace, love, majesty, sovereignty, power, and omniscience, to name a few—rehearsing them over and over in our minds and telling others about the singular nature of the salvation only He offers.

This is a lot to think on and I think it will take some practice (a lot of practice) but I think I need to. tws-signature