Eyes to See, Bruce Speaking this Sunday–blog.optimuschoice.com

3. September 2010 by BruceSmith.

Vision

Come out this Sunday, if you are in the New Orleans/Northshore area, and here Bruce’s message “DreamState: embracing God’s fantastic adventure for your life”.  He will be speaking at Northwoods Church in Downtown Covington at 10:00am.

 Here is your final thought for the week:

What we have need of in our day, in this cultural pool of ideas, is eyes to see.  Not just any eyes, mind you.  Not just physical eyes.  Eyes beholden to the heart of a God who sees all, understands all, knows all, and wants all good for us.  As has been said before, this world goads us to believe a lie when we see with and not through the eye.  Seeing with the eyes of culture, we are blind to reality as God knows it.  Seeing through eyes of faith, our lives are filled with a quality of light and sight unknown to a world stumbling in the dark.  This light pervades every square inch of our lives.

 Muggeridge has written, in his amazing book, Jesus: the man who lives, “Not to flee the world but to discover the world is Jesus directive; and, once so found, and seen with his eyes, it has depths and splendours hitherto unnoticed–as a pretty face touched with affliction discloses its hidden beauty.  If an eye offends pluck it out, Jesus counsels, not thereby becoming blind, but truly seeing; if a limb, amputate it, not thereby becoming crippled, but whole.  He came, he tells us, not to destroy life but that we may have it more abundantly…I can say I never knew what joy was until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die (to self).  For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus”.

Jesus did not call us to abandon the world or to hide from our culture.  Rather, he offers us a power, joy, and life so deep that it, as it makes its way into our lives and out into the world, opens up and transforms the world in ways we never could have imagined.  The life of God in us awakens us, amidst the pains of life, to all that is good, marvelous, and beautiful, because it is created by God and bears his stamp.  He is for us not against us.  Anything he points us to is for our good.  

Let’s joyously pursue him and rest in his plan.  That is true vision.

 Bruce Smith

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