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Physical eyesight
focuses on your
circumstances, on what
people and the devil are doing
and on self and its limitations and
weaknesses. All of those things make
you weak. Living only by your natural
eyesight will displease God and distance
you from Him because natural eyesight
produces doubt, fear, grumbling,
complaining and spiritual weakness; and
those things will ultimately cause you to
fail God.
Living by your natural eyesight will
cause what happens in this life to dictate
what you do, what you say and how you
respond. You won’t be able to see past
your problems long enough to focus
on God and His promises; so you will
become spiritually weak, selfish and full
of opinions.
Living by your natural eyesight is
really living by your feelings. When
everyone is treating you right, all your
needs are being supplied and things
around you are well, you feel good.
However, when things go wrong, it’s a
different story.
Live by Faith
Believing to see is living by faith.
Hebrews 11 is known as the faith
chapter, and the very first verse gives
a wonderful definition of divine faith.
Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen (Hebrews 11:1). That which
you hope for from God—answered
prayer, deliverance or anything else you
need—is what you must hold on to. If
you prayed but God hasn’t yet moved,
divine faith is your evidence that He
will move. It is the evidence of what
you pray for and believe for before the
answer comes.
The Psalmist
said, I had fainted,
unless I had believed
to see the goodness of the
LORD in the land of the living
(Psalm 27:13). You must believe to see
the goodness of the Lord manifested in
your life. Believe to see God fulfilling
His promises for you and supplying all
of your needs, spiritual, physical and
financial.
Any time you fail to believe to see
God’s goodness, you are spiritually
fainting; and that will make you
spiritually weak in difficult times. If you
want to walk with God and please Him,
you must know what it means to believe
to see.
Life on this Earth is no paradise.
Jesus warned, In the world ye shall
have tribulation (John 16:33). You
will experience hardships, sorrows,
persecutions and temptations in this life.
In fact, the closer to God you live, the
more you are subject to those things;
but Jesus went on to say, Be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world
(John 16:33). If you abide in Jesus and
His Word abides in you, you will be an
overcomer too.
Don’t Live by Natural Sight
Physical vision takes place when your
eye takes in the surrounding images
it sees. Your human mind instantly
processes those images to produce
understanding of what you are looking
at. Spiritual vision takes place through
a spiritual mind; so to have that vision,
you must take on a spiritual mind. Paul
said, But we have the mind of Christ
(I Corinthians 2:16).
Child of God, you must learn to live
by spiritual eyesight and believe to see.