All tagged see
When we look at our children, what do we see, and how do we see it? We look at them with our eyes, and see their physical characteristics, we observe their actions and come to know their character by studying them with our minds. We go further and see their heart through the eyes of our own hearts and come to know their love as it mixes with ours and grows, but there is one other way we should look at our children... one that many of us neglect, we should see them spiritually.
Are you an individual? Do you see your spiritual and physical selves as being unique and independent of one another? How about your personality? In fact, our physical being is what we are, and our spiritual self is who we are. So it is that as physical individuals we are referring to our bodies, and although they are alike in many ways, God has made them unique. Our personalities, on the other hand, are experienced more than seen, and are boundless in their nature such that only God can truly understand them. When Jesus speaks in John 17:22-23, which of these is he referring to?