I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, … -- Ephesians 1:16-18
I have to be brief today, but I want to focus on a phrase
that has made me smile through many years:
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened.
The Spirit of God comes and opens, as it were, a new vista
for us. Jesus opened blinded eyes that
men might clearly see the physical world.
The Holy Ghost enables us to see clearly the spiritual world and those
things which are eternal, never passing away.
Jesus touched one blind man who said that he saw “men as
trees walking”. I wonder if this is not
my state sometimes. I perceive spiritual
truth but dimly. It does not come into
sharp focus, and thus it is easy to dismiss as my over-active imagination. Those trees really can’t be moving
around. I must be mistaken, and I am,
for they are not trees, but they are walking.
As we mentioned yesterday, everything is as the saints, the
sages, and the Word say it is. The truth
stands at our shoulder while we look off to the horizon, waiting for it to come
over the hill. MacDonald told us: All
mirrors are magic mirrors.
Our “glorious inheritance” is not limited to where we go and
what we receive when this physical body dies.
The Promised Land is ours now, and, having entered by faith, we will see.
