Wednesday 2/21/12 – Open Your Eyes
Matthew 11:4 – Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John, the things which you hear and see.”
Interpretation:
John sent his disciples to go ask Jesus if He was the One they were waiting for. But instead of giving a straight out yes-or-no answer, Jesus tells them to tell John about the things they heard and saw. The things that Jesus was doing in the lives of the people around Him would undoubtedly confirm that He was indeed the Coming One. All John’s disciples had to do was look around them.
The same thing can happen to us. We might be waiting for God to reveal Himself to us, or hear His voice or see Him move in our lives in a specific way. We might be struggling with our faith as we find it harder and harder to wait for the expected answer in the expected way we think it will come. But perhaps, God is telling us to look around. Perhaps, like He did with John, He’s not going to give us a yes or no answer, but tell us instead that He’s doing so many things in and through us that we just need to look around for the answer. However, what so many people do (Christians and unbelievers alike) is they attribute the small things that God does in their lives to mere coincidence or natural processes. If this is the situation we find ourselves in, then all we have to do is open our eyes. God’s around and He’s showing Himself – but the question is “Are we looking for Him?”
Application:
Today, I will keep my eyes open for the small things in my life that God does to reveal Himself to me that I usually overlook because I consider it chance or just something that happened “naturally.”
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