Devotional Guide For the week of April 27, 2008
TRUST
About wide-open eyes
To read the Bible in one year, today read Psalms 76-78
To Know:
³I do not cease to give thanks for you,
remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the
knowledge of him.² (Eph.1; 16,17)
When a certain school district excluded the teaching of evolution from its
curriculum, many news channels hosted debates on the issue. One panelist
argued that the most obvious fact ought to be that there is no God. He
chose
to cite school shootings as his evidence. His contention was that, if
there
was indeed a God who answered prayer, the believing young people would
have
been protected, not killed. Obviously, he concluded, there is no God.
The Bible says that God ought to be the most obvious fact in the universe.
Paul wrote, ³Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature,
namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the
things that have been made.² (Rm.1: 20) We know that what ought to be
isnıt
so. By nature, we are blind to the presence of God. The Bible reveals a
direct relation****p between self-centeredness and spiritual blindness. In
an
affluent and therefore self-confident nation like our own, it is hard to
believe that we do not possess the capability to solve all our problems by
ourselves. Those who do not need God cannot see him.
To Do:
Paul understood that seeing God was a matter of the heart. It is the eyes
of
the heart that need to be enlightened if we are to see the Savior. Thus
the
apostle prays on behalf of the Ephesians for wisdom and revelation, ³I do
not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit
of
wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.² Ought this not be our
prayer for the world today?
To Ask:
Father, we ask you to open the eyes of many to see who you really are.
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