All tagged seeing

Looking at Faith through Mercy

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Mercy and Faith

Has some act of mercy ever led you into unexpected prayer? Have we ever performed something spontaneous and good for someone, then found that while doing so you found that you had been led into a place spiritually that you hadn’t anticipated, and yet it blessed you immensely? The things we do for those in need can have legs and sometimes they travel far into our spirituality. A simple act, a meal, a drink, an article of clothing, or any other act of mercy we perform, can drop us into some very deep waters of faith. When this happens we might be thrilled by the blessing, but sometimes we can be forced to look beyond our mercy at who we really are, or to see a deeper sin in the situation, and it will scare us.

Seeing Jesus This Easter Day

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Seeing Jesus

Have you seen Jesus? I am not talking about the spiritual feeling that comes over us when we first believe, but in a physical one-on-one encounter with the risen Lord. When this occurs it will change our lives forever; much different than the moment we first believed in faith. Oswald Chambers wrote of seeing Jesus sometime after being saved. He understood what even a glimpse of Him in this way can do to one's spiritual and physical life.

Seeing God in the Land of the Living

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Seeing God

We suffer the ailments and troubles of the world, but we will overcome them in this place with the help of our Lord God. He is good, and He will show us the vastness of His goodness if we are willing to wait upon Him. Do we believe? Do we believe with all our heart so that we can know without a doubt that He is with us, and that we will see His goodness here in the land of the living? David believed in this way, and his faith encourages us to do the same.

Seeing Him who is Invisible

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional ,

Moses endured by seeing Him who is invisible, can we say the same thing regarding our faith? Is God so real and tangible to us that we can see Him all about us? When we open our eyes in the morning, and thank Him for the blessings to come, is He real to us? When we pray our morning prayers do we look into His eyes? And, even before our feet touch the floor, can our ears hear the voice of Jesus as He intercedes for us? Seeing is the process of our eyes gathering the reflection of light from the things about us, and our brain transforming them into an image. Do we see God in this way? Do our eyes gather Him in because He is light, and do we see Jesus because He is light too, or do they both remain invisible to us? Do our minds block what they should be seeing clearly? Is our faith correctly gathering the light of God, and of Jesus Christ and transforming it into their images for us to see?

Lord Open Our Eyes to Heaven Around Us

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Seeing Heaven

Oh that our eyes would be opened to what God has surrounded us with. We walk through our days and think that we are alone, or listen to the silence on a quiet walk when we are sad or contemplating some problem, when all about us there are amazing spiritual things occurring. We should pray each day that our eyes be opened to the wonders that swirl about us. Then perhaps in those moments when we are longing to speak with Jesus, or calling for the Holy Spirit to come, we will realize that all we must do is speak, and that the Holy Spirit is all about us.

Seeing the Unseen, and Living-Out the Humility of Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Jesus the Servant

We sit before Jesus listening as He teaches, and we speak of being humble, but when He kneels before us, do we let Him wash our feet? Do we share in this moment of His humility, service, and love? Can we even allow Him to kneel before us? Can we begin to feel what He is feeling at that moment, when one at a time He takes each of our feet into His hand and ladles water over it with His other? Do we feel ashamed as He rubs the filth from us, and is that shame because we are allowing Him to serve us in a manner that we feel is demeaning to Him, or because we have looked upon so many others as being less when they were serving us? This one act of foot washing teaches us truths at so many levels.