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Who Do You Please?
December 21st, 2012
2 Corinthians 4:1-12
Did you know that a human eye can distinguish 500 different shades of gray, that sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring improved their eyesight, or that your eyes blink over 10 million times a year? Did you know that the “puff of air” shot into your eye during a glaucoma test seems like the longest and most torturous second known to mankind? None of us look forward to it, but in an effort to please our eye doctor and find out if our eyes are healthy, we sit there and take it like a mouse. Which poses a question: Do we want to please God as much as we want to please our ophthalmologist?
Most of us know what it means to please others, and most of us know what it means to please ourselves, but what does it mean to please God? Hebrews 11:6 gives us a clue, “without faith it is impossible to please God.”
God expects us to have faith in his promises and act accordingly. Surely we can display a little more faith in the Sovereign and Supreme Sustainer of all.
Author: Donald A. Schultheis
December 21st, 2012 at 7:06 am
“Do we want to please God as much as we want to please our ophthalmologist?”
Is there ophthalmologist in the house? Faith brpughtinto sight the following analogies.:
Totally Blind – No acknowledgement of God
Congenitally Blind – Spiritually blind due to our heritage
Acquired Blindness – Spiritually blind due to failure to ask Jesus in lieu of the world
Economically Blind – Spiritually blind due to functioning on the worldly financial plane
Vocationally Blind – Spiritually blind due to placing priorities in the work field
Night Blindness – Cannot see without a guiding light of another’s example
Color Blindness – Operates in the shades of grey
Blind Spot – Cannot see something that should seen
Blurred Vision – Causes stumbling and getting off course
Double-sighted – See two creations &/or God & Evolution
Cataract Blindness (Clouds) – Damage done by not protecting “faith” over time
Near-sightedness – Can see our own mistakes but cannot see the mistakes of others
Farsightedness – Can see the mistakes of others but not our own
Astigmatism – Light rays not coming together (causing blurred vision both near & far)
20/20 Vision – Not perfect but able to “see” God’s Kingdo because of being born again with the acceptance of Jesus in the heart & “faith”
December 21st, 2012 at 7:23 am
Wow, your good…
December 21st, 2012 at 9:37 am
Very lovely, Barbara!
“without faith it is impossible to please God.”
Having faith and trusting the Lord with your all heart is one of the sure way to please God. Trust. Believe. Rest. Find peace in His promises. Delight in Word. It will be a lamp to our feet and a light for our path. – Psalms 119:105. The same way our eyes need light to see, our souls also needs that everlasting, oh so powerful light from our Heavenly Father. We can find this through daily study of his Holy Word. Praise God today and forever.
December 21st, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Steve, thank you! However, I can’t take any credit. I don’t think the correlations are an accident. God is so awesome!
After all, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit!
December 21st, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Marcela, your faith is lovely also!
(Since you mentioned our eyes needing light, remember those “blind fish” that live in caves. If memory serves me correctly, they are blind because they don’t get light.)