082 – Open Your Spiritual Eyes to See the Horses and Chariots of Fire

082 –It's time to open your spiritual eyes

Look around you. What do you see? Your computer, your smartphone? If you're on a walk in the woods, you see the trees, the rocks, the gurgling stream.

Now be really observant. Do you see everything there is to see, where ever you are? At first you may think you take it all in. But there's no way to see everything.

Can you see the stuff in your desk drawer when it's closed? Can you see what's behind that tree or the big rock up ahead? Or what about the inside of an apple you just picked up to eat?
There's no way to see everything with your eyes.

But there are other things you can't see even though they are all around. Well, I shouldn't call them "things," because they're spiritual.

For example, can you see the love you have for your family, or God's love for you? You can see the effects of that love, but not the love itself.

Open your spiritual eyes

When Elisha was surrounded by the Syrian army, his servant was afraid. But the prophet prayed for God to open the young man's eyes so he could see. Suddenly the servant saw horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

They were there all along, but the man couldn't see them with his material eyeballs. Elisha did see the horses and chariots of fire. That's why he wasn't afraid.

Jesus saw the kingdom of heaven at hand

When Jesus's disciples were afraid they were going to drown in a storm at sea, they woke Jesus up. But Jesus wasn't afraid of what the material eyes saw. Using his spiritual vision he saw the kingdom of heaven at hand, where there are not storms, no danger, no fear.

Jesus rebuked what the material eyes saw, when it was not in tune with God's kingdom.

Can we learn to use our spiritual eyes?

Of course. You may not see horses and chariots of fire, but you can discern God's presence. You can feel God's love and protection.

And you don't have to wait until there's a terrifying army surrounding you or a life-threatening storm about to sink your boat. Even when everything is going well, we still need to use our spiritual vision to see God being in control of our lives.

Have you ever had an experience when God "opened your eyes" to see something that the material eyes can't see, when you discerned something that no one else saw?

This happened to me when I was studying in southern France during my junior year in college. A group of friends decided to climb Mt. Sainte Victoire, a mountain near Aix-en-Provence. But the weather did not cooperate at all.

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