The Ear and the Eye with God Take a good look at these verses from Job 42:5, 6 “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” What a summary for Job to close his book this way. At the beginning he had heard of God but by the close of the book, and we might venture to say at the close of his life, he had seen God. By seeing God he meant he understood things about G...od he did not know early in his devotional life. That fits perfectly the life of child of God today. I know it does mine. Prior to, and at the beginning of our Christian experience, we had heard of God. His word, the Bible sells several million copies in our society a week. We either had to read it or have someone tell us about God initially before we became a Christian. Think of all that goes in between the time of Gods word initially entering our ears and the latter time when we can say, now I see with my understanding eye what I once only knew by a word I had heard in my ear. When Job knew God by the ear it was when he was a wealthy man. Times were good and all things were going smoothly along. He fit comfortably into a lifestyle with his family. He may have thought of those outside the borders of his country as sinners but he and his family were quite cozy and no doubt he felt well blessed. But it was after the devil spoiled his comfortable surroundings and brought awesome trouble upon him, causing him to lose everything and suffer so badly his loved one counseled him to end it all by blaspheming God, that he said now I see God with my eyes. And so it is. I dont know why it has to be that way, nobody does, but suffering can open the eyes and change a child of God from a routine religious life of comfortably hearing a sermon in the ear each Sunday morning to a deep eye opening experience with God in the nether regions of his/her soul. This cant be conveyed by words, it comes only through trouble and sorrow... I walked a mile and a half with laughter And she chatted all the way, But she left me none the wiser, For all she had to say. I walked a mile and a half with sorrow, And never a word said she, But OH the mighty insight, That sorrow brought to me!
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:31:15 +0000
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