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Monday... Each is so important.


Monday... Each is so important.

Each part of our body is important. It is. Now we can survive without many of them, but they each are important.

Proverbs 20:12 (NLT) says, "Ears to hear and eyes to see - both are gifts from the Lord." Now seeing and hearing from a physical standpoint are really tremendous gifts, but the same is true from a spiritual standpoint. 

Each morning, right after I give thanks to God for all the good gifts He gave to me the day and night before, the first things that I request are ears to hear and eyes to see. Not from a physical standpoint but from a spiritual.

It is so important for us to see things each day from God's view. What is happening around us is way different when we see it from His view, from His perspective.

I just read today the last chapter of the Gospel of Mark. In verses 9-11 (NLT) it says, "After Jesus rose from the dead early on Sunday morning, the first person who saw him was Mary Magdalene, the woman from whom he had cast seven demons. She went to the disciples, who were grieving and weeping, and told them what had happened. But when she told them that Jesus was alive and she had seen him, they didn't believe her." 

And verse 14 says, "Still later he appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating together. He rebuked them for their stubborn unbelief because they refused to believe those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead."

And then the hearing, Jesus had told them over and over that He was going to die and that on the third day He would be raised from the dead but they didn't really hear what He said and understand what He meant. So the gift of seeing and hearing can make such a difference in our day and in our life.

He wants us to really see and really hear what He is doing around us and what He is saying in His Word and through His Holy Spirit. 

Psalm 20:1 (GNT) says, "May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble," give me ears to hear His answer, "May the God of Jacob protect you!" and eyes to see when He is protecting me.

Now these are two gifts of spiritual opportunity you can have if you have a relationship with God. If you can see and hear from a physical standpoint, those gifts come from God  and we need to thank Him for them but from a spiritual standpoint they come to those who have a relationship with Him and who ask Him. God's Spirit is ready to give us eyes to see and ears to hear.  

Proverbs 20:12 (GNT), "The Lord has given us eyes to see with and ears to listen with." And He wants us to use them and thank Him for them. And He wants us to hear what He is saying and see what He is doing. He really does! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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