Daily Thought for Thursday, March 24th

March 24, 2011

The Body, Part Four (The Eyes)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost

which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Today’s Thought:

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Today’s Question

Did you know that it is not uncommon for us to not see things clearly?  “We don’t see things as they are; we them as we are.”  -  Anais Nin

Today’s Spiritual Thought:

“Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas,

converses with its object at the greatest distance,

and continue the longest in action without being tired or satiated

with its proper enjoyments.”

– Joseph Addison (from The Spectator)

Someone once said that the eye is the window to the soul: but from a spiritual perspective faith is the widow through which we must see the things of God in order of the body to carry out its proper duties, obligations and responsibilities.

If seeing is believing in the natural world, believing is seeing things from God’s point of view.

As the body of Christ it is essential for every believer to see through eyes of faith; believing in everything God says and does.

I believe in God the Father - maker of heaven and earth
And in Jesus Christ His only Son
I believe in the virgin birth
I believe in the Man of Sorrows bruised for iniquities
I believe in the Lamb who was
crucified and hung between two thieves

I believe in the resurrection on the
third and glorious day
And I believe in the empty tomb and the
stone that the angel rolled away
He descended and set the captives free
And now He sits at God's right hand
and prepares a place for me

I believe He sent His Spirit to comfort and to reveal
To lead us into the truth and light, to baptize and to seal
I believe that He will come back the way He went away
And receive us all unto Himself, but no man knows the day

-- (lyrics from “My Creed” Petra, written by Robert M. Hartman)

As a part of the body we must believe in order to effectively see.  “Without faith, it is impossible to please God: And faith is the essence of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.” – The Bible

As the body, “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” – Jonathan Swift

We must have vision and we must all see with eyes of faith.

So on some level every believer must be a part of the function of seeing/believing.

Today’s Verses:

  Where there is no vision, the people perish:

                        Proverbs 29:18(a)

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

John 20:24-29

Today’s Prayer:

Father, open the eyes of my heart that I may clearly see all that you have for me to do, and be.

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