How it usually goes is that I will listen to the outpouring for a while. I will nod my head at the appropriate points and after the other person has finished I will utter those words.
I see.
What’s interesting is that my response to what I have heard is based on what I see. That’s particularly interesting seeing as though it’s clearly not my actual visual faculties that I rely on to see what is going on. What I express is an understanding of what has been put to me. Often I will give evidence that I see the point.
As I take a few steps back, I recognise that often I don’t see. However much I looked to placate the person who I was talking to, in reality I didn’t see at all.
That’s why I can relate to the disciples as they followed Jesus for the best part of three and a half years. Their visual faculties received a lot. Likewise much was presented to them about Jesus through the words He said. Yet even at the brink of His death they showed just how little they really saw. They showed just how blind they were.
It’s a humbling thing to acknowledge blindness to matters of Christ. It’s humbling and a starting point to have Him work the miracle of the eyes of my heart by opening them up so that I can truly see what He wants me to see.
For his Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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