In the last year I had a cataract removed from my eye. My vision had deteriorated tremendously. My wife was scared to ride with me. My vision was cloudy and blurred. But the minute they removed it and placed a new lens in my eye I could see clearly. It was and is amazing. The same thing happens to us spiritually. Before a relationship with Jesus we are unable to see life clearly. But once He removes our spiritual cataract-sin and places His new lens-Spirit in us we can see life clearly. It is a miracle. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”― C.S. Lewis
NAVIGATE
“Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent – and flew straight into the ground. She was unaware that she had been flying upside down. This is a parable of human existence in our times – not exactly that everyone is crashing, though there is enough of that – but most of us as individuals, and world society as a whole, live life at high-speed, and often with no clue to whether we are flying upside down or right-side up. Indeed, we are haunted by a stirring suspicion that there may be no difference – or at least that it is unknown or irrelevant.” Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy
“Yet, in the gloom a light glimmers and glows. We have received an invitation. We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God. The invitation has long been in public record. A door of welcome seems open to everyone without exception. No person or circumstance other than our own decision can keep us away. ‘Whosoever will may come.’” Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy
Read more...
HEARING CLEARLY
A few months back I got hearing aids. Wow! I knew my hearing was bad, but it wasn’t until I could hear again did I realize how bad. I was missing out on so many sounds. Jesus often said, “He who has ears to ear let them hear what the Spirit says.” Do you have hearing loss when it comes to hearing Jesus? Maybe, you are not even aware that you are not hearing Him. When His Spirit comes into your life He will give you Spiritual hearing aids and you will say, Wow, I can’t believe what I wasn’t hearing! He who has ears to ear let them hear what the Spirit says!
Read more...