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“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked. He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”-John 9
The man they call Jesus, the One Who Saves, brought sight to the eyes of the blind. He said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light...." - Matthew 6:22
"He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor."

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him."- Luke 4:18
"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life..."-1 John 1
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God..."-Jesus (:in the book of Matthew)
This week, I have tried to do what I saw as right. My eyes cannot see what God sees, as even the darkness will not be dark to Him; the night will shine like the day. Now in humility, I come with the prayer: "See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting..."
I have accused another this week, of manipulating. Soon, I began to see that I badly manipulate others. I needed to hear Jesus' question: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?", and He has helped me to have freedom of sight now.
A baptism is a beautiful thing. Thinking about a friend doing this, it has been a prayer I've had for the past couple of weeks. I realized today in church membership class, that being baptized is allowing others to see that you will be seen as one who sees yourself as God sees you. That is, you will be baptized as clear expression of that newness which Christ has formed in you of Himself, + it will be seen in all that you are, have, and do forevermore.
"Let your light shine before all men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven..."...that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
We were also told after church membership class, that missionaries are like the eyes of the church body that go out and into other parts of the world.
"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven..."-Jesus, in Mt.18:10
Oft, Paul has described wanting to see those he was writing to. He expressed wanting to be face to face, and "in (your) presence...". David has expressed in Psalm 27: "One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple."
The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond branch.”Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”-Jer.1:11
When moses asked God to show him His glory, the Lord replied: ""I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion....you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live..." Then the LORD said, "There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen."
Moses asked, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance." Then the LORD said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you..."-Exodus 33
Amen. Let it be:)

2/6/12

Relating to the Lord,

This has been a week of mystery, emotion, relation, learning, and more than I know. Having friends has been an important part of living- whether seeing them around, or at, or away from school, I have sought to be with them. It’s been good sharing meals, talking over life, and being affected by their influence.

I think about the Lord’s friendship with me, and how he brings me to certain verses at just the right time, and how everything He does is right. He has helped me this week through things I haven’t done rightly, and He shapes and conforms my mind to think as He does- and to be even controlled by Him.

He, in Himself, is enough. To have mindset on Him, security and hope in Him, trusting in Him with all my heart, reflecting on Who He is and what He has done is best. To invite Him to be living in me, controlling and leading me, is what He wants. The reality of Him having a will has come as glorious truth this week.

Being entirely honest with Him is most important. Sharing all of my heart, reflecting on everything with Him, and going forward confidently of Who He is will declare Him and tell of Who He is. Words have been a struggle for me in the past, and going from quiet times this week began to change this.

Still, I did not use them rightly all the time, but I began to expose more of myself with the Lord and this seemed to really invite Him into every other part of conversation/words I’d have with others later. There were friends I hadn’t ever met before, who I got to meet this week and get to know a little more. To the Lord’s praise, He began to really show from me willingness again to ask how others are.

One friend told me how he had been a homosexual. A most dear friend told me of things from her past that made me angry with others who were called her friends. A brother in Christ gave me friendship with him through solidarity in our struggle with what we had said in surplus, overburdening the precious women the Lord had placed us in one-to one, romantic relationship and companionship with.