\u201cOpen my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from Your law.\u201d
Question: What do we understand by saying, \u201cGod, open my eyes\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2 kings 6, the King of Syria sent a great army to capture Elisha, and surrounded the city, but Elisha prayed for his frightened servant \u2013 verse 17, \u201cElisha prayed, and said, \u2018Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.\u2019 Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n In Genesis 21, God enabled Hagar to see a well of water after her son was about to die of thirst \u2013 verse 19, \u201cAnd God opened her eyes, and she saw.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n God enables us to see Him, and turn to Him.<\/p>\n In John 9, Jesus healed a man blind from birth, who came away seeing after washing in the pool. But his real sight was shown when the Pharisees were questioning him. In verse 29 they admitted, \u201cas for this fellow, we do not know where He is from.<\/em>\u201d The man replied \u2013 verse 32, \u201cSince the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n While the Pharisees had physical sight, they were blind to the presence of God amongst them, but the healed man saw God present in Jesus, that was the real miracle of healing this man.<\/p>\n In Ephesians 1:18-20, Paul prays that God may give, \u201cthe eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places\u201d<\/p>\n During Jill\u2019s testimony which was played during the evening service last night, she described how after receiving Jesus, when she next saw her father whom she had never got along with, she simply loved him. Praise God for His miracle of sight.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOpen my eyes, that I may seeWondrous things from Your law.\u201dQuestion: What do we understand by saying, \u201cGod, open my eyes\u201d What does God enable us to see? His almighty power In 2 kings 6, the King of Syria sent a great army to capture Elisha, and surrounded the city, but Elisha prayed for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-verses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}His provision<\/h4>\n
Himself<\/h4>\n
Understanding and Hope through Jesus<\/h4>\n
Love<\/h4>\n
To see with eyes of love is perhaps the greatest miracle of all, when we can see people in the way God sees them \u2013 as Jesus sees us, even while we were sinners He gave His life for us.<\/p>\n