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Fill Your Senses with His Presence


In my last blog post, I wrote that God has eyes.  In the one previous to that, I wrote that God has ears.  While we really don’t know if God has physical eyes and physical ears, we do know that He does see, look and observe and that He does hear, listen and is attentive.

While we normally do have physical eyes and ears, it can also be argued that we have spiritual eyes and spiritual ears as well.  On this spiritual side of things, the Word of God has some interesting things to say:

Until we’ve put our trust in Christ for salvation, we have spiritual eyes that do not see and spiritual ears that do not hear:  “Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?” (Mark 8:18)

There are times when our spiritual eyes and spiritual ears are not functioning as they should:  “For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.  Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” (Acts 28:27)

There are even times when it seems that we are selective in what we will see and what we will hear:  “You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.” (Isa 42:20)

So what do we do?

We look to the Lord to help us to engage our spiritual ears:  “The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.”  (Isaiah 50:4)

We must take an active role in using our spiritual ears:  Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I will speak to you and listen closely.” (Ezekiel 3:10)

We look to the Lord to help us engage our spiritual eyes:  “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.” (Eph 1:18)

We also must take an active role in using our spiritual eyes:  “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”  (Heb 12:2)

We do have spiritual ears to hear and spiritual eyes to see and yet without them, we won’t hear or see God.   With them engaged, our sense of hearing and our sense of sight can be filled with His presence!


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