Proverbs 29:18a says where there is no vision, the people perish.
There
are different levels of seeing. There are those who cannot see at all,
we call them blind. There are people who can see which constitutes the
majority of us. There are people who can see through skill for example
sculptors. A sculptor looks at a rock and sees an object; he gets his
chisel and other tools and carves out the object. Without the skill one
will see nothing but a rock. There are people who can see with their
mind, they imagine things. There are people who can see through
experience. Because of experience in certain areas they can see what
ordinary people cannot see. Sometimes back I went to buy bananas in a
shop. On coming out of the shop , an elderly woman met me and said
‘young man those bananas are not good , by this time tomorrow they will
be all be rotten’. I looked at the banana they were very fresh. I said
thanks ma but I was too tired to walk back and change them so I went
home. I ate two out of five and by the time I got to the kitchen the
next morning the three left were completely rotten. This woman from
experience saw what I could not see.
There are
also people who can see with their spiritual eyes. In 2 Kings 6:15-17,
Gehazi saw the whole town been surrounded by an army and He began to
panic. He ran to call Elisha the anointed man of God and when that one
got there, he just began to smile. Why? Because he saw the host of
heaven in their millions protecting them. Two of them saw the same
thing; while one was panicking the other began to rejoice. In 1 Samuel
17:1-58, while the whole army of Israel saw Goliath and his stature and
began to panic, because of the anointing on David he saw the unprotected
skull of Goliath and began to rejoice. Notice this, the whole army of
Israel stood before Goliath and saw nothing but a young anointed boy saw
an exposed skull. Whether we believe it or not, the spiritual runs the
physical. Anyone who is blind spiritually is equivalent to a man blind
physically. With all the gadgets in this world, we know a blind man is
still limited in a lot of ways. How easy is it for a blind man to defend
himself when he is been attacked. How fast can a blind man run? How
much can he achieve and at rate will he achieved them? If a physically
blind man is this limited how much more a spiritually blind man? Many
have entered into wrong relationships, accepted wrong contracts,
partnered with wrong people because they cannot see the spiritual.
According to Proverbs 29:18a, the lack of vision i.e. spiritually blind
can lead to physical harm or loss.
PRAYER POINT: Father, please open my spiritual eyes.
