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God Open My Eyes
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Psalm 119:17-19 Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word. Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.
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Download audio fileThe essential ingredient of having a teachable heart, the essential prerequisite if you will, is having a humble heart. A heart that is aware of the deep spiritual poverty that lies within.
Often the reason we don’t take God’s instruction, God’s wisdom to heart, is because there’s this translucent veil of “self” as A.W.Tozer calls it, draped over our hearts.
I know everything. If only my wife or my husband or that person over there would listen to what the preacher is preaching today, then this world would be a better place. If only they would get it!!
That’s often how we think, right? It never crosses our mind that what God is saying today through His Word is meant for us. That He’s trying to deal with that poverty within that’s robbing us of the abundant life that Jesus came to give us.
We all have blind spots. We all have things about ourselves that we can’t see because, well, that’s the whole point of it being a blind spot. We can’t see it! Jesus said:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)
In other words, those who recognise their deep poverty, those who admit it, they’re the ones who will be blessed because the kingdom of heaven is for them.
What blind spots do you have? The answer is, you don’t know, because they’re blind spots. The same is true of me. I have my blind spots too. The question is, what to do about them. So, try this on for size:
Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word. Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me. (Psalm 119:17-19)
What do we do about our blind spots? We ask God to open our eyes, so that we can see the point of what He has to say to us. So that when we open the Bible and read His Word, the Holy Spirit will lift that one particular verse, or that one particular story that He has for us today, right off the page and plonk it into our hearts. So that in an instant we’ll get what He’s trying to say to us, in a way that completely, utterly, radically changes us. In a way that deals with some of that deep spiritual poverty in our hearts.
When was the last time you went to God and asked Him to deal bountifully with you, to open your eyes so you could behold the wonders of His Word? When was the last time you said to Him, Lord, I’m an alien in this world, this life down here is tough today. I need your Word so don’t hide your commandments from me?
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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