Ezekiel
looked in the valley at God’s command and saw rightly again, he saw dry bones,
a vast number, and God asked if they could live again, Ezekiel must have
learned from others so he said, “O Lord God, thou knowest”. If you don’t know,
simply say, Lord, I don’t; Don’t guess or imagine, God loves sincere people.
Open people. Honest and true people. This part throws me back to Joshua and
Caleb. Numbers 13:25-14:10, tells a story of 12 spies. While 10 saw men like
Giants, record breaking and making people, strong and mighty, Joshua and Caleb
saw people that could be conquered ‘if only the Lord delights in them’. God
doesn’t really need everyone or the vast majority to believe in Him but surely
wants you to be among the few that believe on him and in His Words and for
everything, all that he has done before now! The Giants were real, they existed
but God had given them heads of kings before now,} so why on earth should they not believe he’d
give them the land of the Giants?! The story ends with Joshua and Caleb being
the only people who left Egypt and made it to the promised land simply because
they believed in God’s repeated manifestation of His Power!
I
feel revived and excited writing these things down. It’s straight from the
Father! I pray for you reading this, “You will begin to see what God sees!”
Now,
I conclude with the New Testament.
Jesus,
fed the multitude – the five thousand, then the four thousand and in both
cases, women and children aside (do the math). Matthew 14:13-21 and 15:29-38, shows
that even being with God the Son himself, the disciples weren’t seeing a bigger
picture. It doesn’t matter who you’re with, if you have a bad vision, you have
a bad vision and except you begin to look out, and expand your view, knowing
who you are with, you can never see beyond your limits! When lack and want,
impossibility and hopelessness seems to lurk around you, turn your eyes upon
Jesus, He who is with you is not someone, who doesn’t understand. Our previous
texts saw men and God in relationships that were from one side, God’s; but
Jesus who was with us, felt what we felt, and went through all we do now but He
laid us a step to follow.
Throughout
the chronicle of Jesus’ life on earth he saw suffering men, dying men, people
that needed help but men felt they had it all. Men were living based on what
they saw and their abilities, but Jesus saw something more than they did see. He
knew only his blood could really make them live right and stand right before
God. God looked at man’s state and sent Jesus for his redemption. Man was not
designed the way he turned out. Man was built to dominate (Gen. 1:28). Created
to worship, (Rev. 4:11). God’s vision of man was a vision of Himself in man.
(imagine man having the power of God! That was the original idea). But that
moment of being off-guard, settling for the now and forgoing the then. Man saw
temporal wisdom true the deceptive eyes of the serpent and lost the glory of
the future. The coming of the Second Man – Jesus, was a re-making of man hence
the command, “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN”, John 3:3. By being born again, you now
live in the newness of the original plan of dominating but to dominate
effectively, you have to be in total obedience to the Lord, (2 Co. 10:6). I
wish I could delve in to the deep part of this sight of God but I can only
write in line with the SPIRIT OF GOD for the purpose of this article. Jesus for
the greater part of his ministry fled on many occasions when the people wanted
to seize him and make him king, he departed from there and went somewhere else
to be alone. (John 6:15). Ordinarily every temporary-glory seeker would fall
for it but not this Man, he had a greater vision. There was something else at
stake, it wasn’t about all that, the now, it was about the then! Have you
achieved something and the people are excited about it and want to give you
glory? Look out! It’s not the end, there is more. If God has given you a
vision, stick to it, at the right time, the glory will come. Paul the Apostle
writes, “…who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hey. 12:2).
See that? There was more to His coming and dying on the cross. Stephen saw heaven
when those around him saw a blasphemer; Acts 7:55-58. Paul saw a crown of life
despite all he saw around him (2 Cor. 6:1-10), looked steadfastly and hopefully
at the glory ahead of him (2 Tim. 4:7-8). Now that’s my cue to end this write up
because there is nothing more to say here, Uncle Paul has wrapped it up.
What
you see is a function of your heart’s limitations, the boundaries you’ve set
within your heart. You are what you envision. Look now unto Jesus, keep your
eyes fixed on Him, never lose sight of the big picture! There is grace upon you
to live beyond limits. In adversity see prosperity. In want, see provision. In
hate, see love. In all the negatives see the positives. As a matter of fact, be
the exact of whatever you want to start happening! God wanted man so he had to
be man. Do you want to be given? Give. Do you want to be loved? Love. Do you
want to be rich? Be rich in your heart towards God and for whatever you want to
be at all, be it in God!
Are
you wise in your sight or smart in your heart because of who you are at the
moment? You need to look at Jesus and if you do with all your heart you’d
discover that you have been empty and God is calling you to come and be filled.
Run to Him now!
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