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What Can your Eyes See?
What can you see when you look at your world from God?
Job was listening well about God but his hearing did not equate to vision. His saw with his own eyes and with his cultural eyes.
Our Biblical Ground Work: Job 42:12-17
Job has been through the ringer and so has Job’s wife. He has had all of his livestock taken away and all of his children. What he was able to get out of this was boils and bad breath and God’s vision.
When God was done talking to him he was able to see. In Job 42:5 he said something significant that will reflect in his view of life from this day forward. “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You.” His hearing was tuned in but he was blind.
He is now viewing his life through the Lord’s eyes instead of his own. This new vision created a new way of seeing that reflected on how he sees his new daughters as well. They were beautiful but what he actually saw was they were equal to his sons.
Our Biblical Life Lesson: Equality can only be seen through the eyes of God.
Equality is a subjective word because humans are not equal to look at. We are uniquely gifted and called to do something differently. We are male and female. We are Canadian and American. We are so different we cannot even explain our differences to each other. Our eyes are limited to what we can see in front of us but God can give us full vision.
What is, has been and will be equal is the Lords treatment of His children. He sees us based on our birthright in the Kingdom. We are born for a reason and that reason is unique to each of us. Equality, in God’s economy, is each of us doing God’s work with His zeal.
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Speaking the Thoughts of Satan
Has a thought come into your head and out of your mouth before you thought of where it comes from or even if you agree with it?
Join the club…
Our Biblical Ground Work: Job 1:11; Job 2:9
The story of Job is one that a lot of people would refer you to if you are going through a tough time. Job and his wife both voice their sadness. Satan goes after Job with God’s blessing and uses his wife as a tool to get him to curse the Lord.
To be fair, Job’s wife has seen her life go straight into a pit:
- she has lost 10 children and the spouses that I am sure she had grown to love.
- the family fortune disappeared with all it’s creature comforts
- her husband Job has a rather nasty disease and bad breath to boot
Ultimately Job’s reward for “seeing the Lord” (Job 42:5) becomes her reward for remaining with Job during this trying time in their life. He understood the reason for this time and so did his wife.
Our Biblical Life Lesson: Our thoughts do not have to become words.
You will read throughout Job, thought becoming word. You will read throughout the whole of the Bible, thought becoming word.
The Lord says that every one of His words will not come back void and it shall prosper in the thing in which He has sent it (Isaiah 55:11) because His words are righteous (Psalm 119:123). The thoughts of the Lord are for us to live in hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
Satan, on the other hand, is the father of all lies and speaks from his own resources (John 8:44). His main resource is pride (Isaiah 14:12-17) so every word he utters will result in the pride of life being protected. The thoughts of the Devil are for us to die in despair.
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