Sight Devotional (Understanding) pt.2

                                             By: Fred Reid

  This is sort of a finishing touch to the previous devotional I did about the time Jesus healed the man’s sight in two touches. Just to make sure we on the same page the scripture was Mark 8:22-26. The focus of this devotional will be how your understanding changes as you spend more time with Christ.

     If we were to compare this man’s sight to our understanding of God it makes for an interesting comparison. When you first get saved you are so excited about the things of God but truthfully you are a baby in Christ. Thus your understanding must mature. Think of some of the younger people in your family, they may be eager to learn and do things but truthfully it would just be too much for their mind to be exposed to. Similarly this is why there are saints of varying ages that are still in the very beginning stages of understanding Christ. Now these are NOT sinner or heathens, simply people that need their understanding developed. These are people that truly believe in Christ but don’t understand how they give up their old ways for a life of salvation. They have good intentions but they don’t understand that its more about your lifestyle than it is about the services that you go to on Sunday’s. The interesting part of all this is that usually they are the most excited to spread the gospel, but as you can tell it is somewhat watered down. Their gospel sounds like I thought when I had been saved for a while, “you can do what you want to as long as you repent and go to church”.  They aren’t aware of scriptures like Hebrews 10:26. They say stuff like , “I love the Lord but sometimes people make me real made and I got to cuss them out.” They haven’t read AND applied things like Ephesians 4:28-31 or James 1:26.

     By no means am I attacking them, because I was definitely one of them. The truth of the matter is if you couldn’t see for years and then all of a sudden your eyes are opened there would be too much light for your pupils to take in. Likewise if God were to drop all this knowledge on you at first  there’s no telling how your mind or life would have reacted…you prolly would have ran even more than you did at first (or maybe that was just me). If you look back over your life the Lord has slowly and patiently brought us out of our bad habits but most importantly our old thought process. There were a lot of things that I just thought would never change about me, but first the Lord let me know that they HAD to change and secondly showed me how to change them. Thus we should let these younger, immature Christians know that these are things that need to change, but slowly and patiently let them know how they can change. They mean well and can easily be discouraged by “church folk” coming down on them all the time. But if instead there was someone that was consistently loving, ready to teach and patient with them, then they too can change like you did. Let the Lord touch you, so you can touch them.

Over and Out J