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Thursday... Oh, if this would only happen.


Thursday... Oh, if this would only happen.

We look at our lives but we don't really see. Oh we see just enough to discourage us, to take away our hope but there is more to this life than that. 

The prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible says this in Isaiah 32:3 (NIV), "Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen." This is what we need in this day in which we live. Oh, God open our eyes to really see what is happening, to see what you are doing and to open our ears so we will listen to you.

He goes on in verse 4, "The fearful heart will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear." This is what happens when we open our eyes and see from God's perspective, and we really listen to His Spirit leading us and speaking to us. He has so much more for us.

Here is what will happen when we see and hear. Verses 5-7 says, "No longer will the fool be called noble nor the scoundrel be highly respected. For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the Lord; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water. Scoundrels use wicked methods, they make up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just." 

That is so true in this day in which we live. And we need to open our eyes to really see and to listen with our ears to what God is saying. Verse 3 in the NLT says, "Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears to hear it." Yes, we really need to know the truth.

And then verse 8 (NIV) says, "But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand." And in the NLT this verse caught my attention. "But generous people plan to do what is generous, and they stand firm in their generosity."  That is what God wants, that is his way and his plan. 

I'm afraid that we are seeing our life from a wrong perspective and listening to the wrong voices. This is what happens when we listen to God's voice and see his way of handling what is happening around us and the Evil One doesn't like his plan. 

Oh God if we would only open our eyes to see your way and listen to your voice.  If we would see the life around us and what is happening to us from your perspective and seek out your voice then we would fit into what you want to happen. So open our eyes to see, and our ears to hear. 

So let's quit being fearful and stammering but be fluent and clear in what God is doing in and through our lives. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 

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