Eyes To See

What or where would we be without eyes that see? No, this isn’t a discourse on our appendages, rather giving thanks to God for his creation.

When doing my research on eyes to see, one article says that there are 34 verses biblically that refer to “eyes to see” as many of the verses also include ears to hear. 

I ask you to turn to The Acts of the Apostles and read chapter 3, where Peter and John were on their way to the temple. As they fixed their eyes on this beggar, the beggar asked them to give him something. Eyes fixed, the beggar thought he was to be successful, but, instead, Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but I will give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!” And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and his feet and ankles immediately became strong, and he sprang to his feet and began to walk, and he went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.

Here is a prime example of the power of God given to one of the disciples for all to see. Astonished and amazed were the many people who had recognized the lame beggar as the one who sat at the gate of the Temple.

Are we any different in today’s time, when we hear of modern medicine conquering diseases that were so prevalent just a hundred years ago.

Consider that it is God who has given man the wisdom to find and cure so many diseases, for it is God who gave man eyes to see. Yes, we are a “doubting Thomas” for we must see the actual scars and piercings, like Thomas, before we believe.

But this is not the end of the story—And as he (the beggar) still clung to Peter and John, all the people crowded about them in the utmost astonishment in what was known as Solomon’s Colonnade. When Peter saw this, he said to the people, “Men of Israel, why are so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that made him able to walk? Acts 3:11-13.

Peter, with eyes to see, took full advantage to address this crowd of amazed people with a marvelous testimony.

So, God created the opportunity, the timing, the setting and the eyes for all to see this miracle. God gave Peter “the eyes which are the window to the soul” the words to the people in verses 12-26. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, gave to the listening crowd what they needed to hear on disowning and betraying Jesus. Yet, he did not stop for he gives his testimony on why his Christ must suffer.

As we close this column, Peter, speaking to those descendants of the prophets and heirs of the agreement that God had made with their forefathers, said to Abraham, “Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed. It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness”. Acts 3:25-26.

Peter spoke to those who had “eyes to see & ears to hear”, for not only were they (Peter & John) talking in this way to the people, but to the high priests, commander of the Temple and the Sadducees.

The result! The apostles were arrested and jailed for the night, “yet many of those who had heard what they said believed it, and their number grew to be about five thousand”. Acts 4:4.

These great apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, always remembered and kept in the back of their mind the parable of the Sower— ¹⁰The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” ¹¹He replied,“Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heavenbeen given to you,not to them.¹²Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.¹³This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; hearing, they do not hear or understand.¹⁴In them is fulfilledthe prophecy of Isaiah:‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;will be ever seeing but never perceiving.¹⁵For this people’s heart has become calloused;hardly hear with their ears,they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes,with their ears,with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. ¹⁶But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.¹⁷For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you seedid not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it”. Matthew 13:10-17

Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear? Do you have itchy ears and have closed your eyes? When reading the Bible, do you see, yet never perceive? Do you hear with the words going in one ear and out the other?

The times our apostles spoke to the people are no different than those who speak today and the result is the same—Some have their eyes wide shut and some have eyes to see—Which are you? Until next time, may you bless God in all that you say and do! not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

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