Seeing the Truth
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Author, Poet and Philosopher, Henry David Thoreau
To be able to see what is true and real far exceeds physical sight. There are multiple things that fog our vision like faulty cognitive filters, false beliefs, and deceptive people. Because the factors, which fog our vision, started in childhood rarely are we aware that our vision is anything but okay. But for all of us, it is way off and the decisions of our lives, troubles, pains, conflicts, and so on tell just how off it is.
So how does someone who has foggy vision and doesn’t realize it ever see reality? The only way is to gain another set of eyes. When God’s spirit dwells within us as part of our new life in Christ, we get another pair of eyes searching the depths of our souls. As we nurture our relationship with God and draw near to Him strengthening His Spirit within us our sight comes more into focus and we begin to see things as they truly are.
The closer I draw near to God, the clearer I see myself, others and all the things around me. As I gain my new sight, it astounds me how blind I’ve been in my life. I have made many many poor decisions from not seeing clearly. And my greatest blindness has been about myself – which I think is true of everyone. We have always lived with our frame of mind and perspective. Until we have someone separate from ourselves, who is as close to our soul as we are, and who is nothing but truth then we will always be blind to some degree.
To see clearly we need God. We need to be in a relationship with Him and growing in truth. Otherwise we will continue to live and make decisions as we always have based on lies about us, others and this world. As a result, we and our loved ones suffer for it. The ripple effect of not seeing clearly is tremendous.
But once we begin to see, the freedom we experience is remarkable. Blindness is a thief to true life and a destroyer of life. The truth does set us free, but we need the eyes to see it.
Living Light 
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December 8, 2011 at 9:44 am
Hey Rachel, such as in 1929, when the gentile broke covenant with God(trading Jesus for the ressurection of the son of perdition), Rev.9, fifth angel blew his trumpet, a star fallen from heaven to earth, he was given key of the shaft of the bottomless pit: the dust bowl days, great depression,&great horriads of wholesale &retail dealers in the god biusness. They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon (Destroyer) and in Greek he is called Apollyon (satan). Many did commit suicide during the stock market crash &the suicide rate keeps increasing do to people not being able to be in life style as they desire. In prophetic terms, five months could be as much as 150yrs. BEHOLD, two woes are still to come!
December 8, 2011 at 9:57 am
Hi Eldon – thanks for sharing your interpretations … it can spark people to seek the truth of the times we are in.