It’s Obvious (now)!

In my last post (“Contradictions?”) I told how the Holy Spirit had taught me something from the Bible by suggesting that I look up the meaning of the original language using Strong’s Concordance. Now you need to understand that my Strong’s is well-worn and often used. So when I received this gentle nudge one of my first thoughts was “Why didn’t I think of that before??” It should have been obvious.

I think the answer lies with my eyesight. I think I am sufficiently aware of my surroundings and I even think I have fairly decent spiritual discernment. But the fact of the matter is that I am blind – blind as if as I had no eyes – without the Holy Spirit guiding me and letting me see through His eyes.

God tells us in His Word (the Bible) that the spiritual is more real than the chair that I’m sitting on. That His ways are more real than the bills I have waiting to be paid, the unreasonable and angry coworker, and the difficult family situation that no amount of trying seems to be able to fix.

I just can’t see it unless He opens my eyes.

So I can continue to worry about the bills, plot confrontation with my coworker or decide to lay down the law at home. I can even try to understand the Bible and seek out those more knowledgeable than I for debates on the meaning of this or that passage of Scripture. But it’s all for naught since I am, at best, stumbling around in the dark. But when I have the eyes of the Holy Spirit, the obstruction I just I tripped over is seen for what it really is: a stepping stool to be used to reach the solution sitting in plain sight on the top shelf. I need to ask Him for His sight and then rely on His view.

It’s obvious!