I keep asking, I keep praying, that we may see. I pray for the people for whom I have spiritual responsibility, that they may see and understand the reality of the things we believe and of the One in whom we have believed. Sometimes in prayer you are so overwhelmed by the consciousness of God that all you can do is cry and cry out to God for a greater revelation of Him to fill His church. We think differently, we speak differently, we live differently when we have encountered God.
One can be a Christian and have only a vague awareness of a distant deity without experiencing a real connection with God in the spirit. The written word brings us to the knowledge of the truth and is also supposed bring our minds to this connection with the Holy Spirit in prayer, in this place where divine reality submerges earthly reality. Prayer is far from being a painful obligation, no, it is the meeting place, where spirit communes with spirit; it is the place of vision. For we are spiritual beings supposed to know God in spirit, hence Jesus' declaration to the Samaritan woman that the time will come when those who worship God will worship him in spirit and in truth
When Gehazi saw in the Spirit, his entire perspective changed. It's the same with us. Things that seemed so important become less important as awareness of otherworldly reality redefines our outlook, values, and attitudes. The encounter with God provokes a desire to please, follow, and imitate Christ; it affirms the superiority of God's kingdom, its permanence, and its right to occupy our thoughts, time, and attention. It confirms in us the privilege of being part of God's kingdom.
Tirelessly I ask; 'open my eyes so that I may see' and the cry of my heart for the church, for those in my care is this, open our eyes so that we may see the extraordinary richness of your Person, of your kingdom and of all that is laid out on the table set before us, 'open our eyes to see and receive so that we may cease to live hungry in the midst of abundance.
Shalom!
