Learn to look at what you see through the eyes and the Word of God more than through your eyes and your own understanding.
Romans 4:3 says this: “Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Sometimes we do not see things as they really are because we look at things through the dirty lens of our own desires. Many years ago, I learned that it was better for me to allow the Word of God to read my life back to me and to tell me what it finds. As much as I want to read the Word and to understand the Word, it is better for me to listen to what the Word says it finds in me.
If you listen more to what the Lord has to say about you then you will learn to live more like He wants you to live. Abraham did this. He listened to what God said to him and then he acted out in ways that demonstrated his belief in what God wanted.
Abraham did not have to fit God’s desires to his action. Abraham looked at the world through the eyes of God so that his actions fit with what God said. Abraham turned things around. Many of us should turn things around. We want to believe what we see and do and then we look to find validation of that in God’s Word. We should look to believe and see all of God’s Word and then we would see what that says about the things we see and do.
But this is difficult for many of us to understand and to do. We read the bible like we would read a newspaper. Our objective is to learn what happened today so we can be informed. But we cannot learn how to live better by reading the newspaper because the newspaper is not an authority on life – especially not our lives.
The Lord wants to help us learn to live abundant lives but to do that we must be willing to change how we approach learning about the Lord. We must turn things around. More than reading and handling what the scripture says, we should turn things around so that the scripture handles who we are so that we can be who we should be.
In Hebrews 4:12 scripture also says that the “Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Many of us miss the understanding and the discernment found in this scripture.
The Word is living; it is not dead nor is it fiction. Since it is living, we ought to allow the living to read the dead things in our lives and to tell us what it finds.
The Word is powerful and sharper than even the sharpest sword. Since it is sharp, we should allow it to cut through our own thoughts and through our own ideas of how we should view life so that we can see clearly the life God wants us to live.
The Word is a discerner of our thoughts and intents. Since the Word knows us better than we know ourselves, we should be happy to have the truth of our lives revealed to us by the righteousness of the Word.
None of this will happen and none of this will matter unless we learn to turn things around so that the Word tells us what it finds about us as it relates to how we should think, act and live. We will get off track the more we try to look at things with what we think we know about the Word.
We must turn things around. We can never the sharper than the Word. We can never be more powerful than the Word. We can never be a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the Word the way the Word is to us.
Today, why don’t you commit to turn things around? When you open your eyes make sure you are looking first at the Word. It should be the first thing and the filter through which you see anything else. When you do that, the Word will tell you how you should think, act and live out what you see.
Lord, we want and need You to turn us around to see what You see more than to see what we want to see.
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