“Deer!” yelled my friend as he suddenly slowed the truck down.
“Where?” I asked, looking out the truck’s window.
“There!” he answered as he pointed. “Whoa! They’re big! And there’s a buck! Now that’s an amazing sight!”
I looked but saw nothing. “Where do you see them?” I asked, now a little frustrated.
“Look right over there” he said with an impatient sigh (as if I were such a wildlife slacker), but now being more specific as to the location. Sure enough, there were four does and one big buck standing there looking at us.
Ever had something like this happen to you…somebody sees something that you can’t? Or, you’re seeing something that others can’t? Either side of the equation is frustrating. The Apostle Paul experienced this.
The Holy Spirit was showing Paul unbelievable things. He was shown how amazing God’s grace and justification were. He saw how God was now sovereignly including the Gentiles in His great plans and purposes. But when he told people about what he was seeing, they didn’t get it. So he would say things like…
“I pray that your eyes are focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers.” (Eph 1:18, The Message)
It’s like God was yelling through Paul and others in the Bible, “Whoa! Did you see that?!” But unlike my friend, God isn’t impatiently pointing in the general direction wondering why we’re such slackers, but by His Spirit inside of us, He pulls down the mirror over the visor and has us look at ourselves, “Look right over here. Now that’s an amazing sight!!!”
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