Eyes to see, Ears to hear

[Potters House]

A recent post has inspired me to set forth a question to fellow believers. As we read the Word of God, I'm certain that there have been times when the Holy Spirirt has revealed to us, the deeper meanings of scriptures. This thread will be a place to share those 'revelations' with others.
As an example, I would like to share the story of the fig tree, in Mark 11:13-20. This always puzzled me. I saw it in the natural, and couldn't understand why Jesus would kill a defenseless little tree, that didn't have fruit because it was the wrong time of the year. Here we see Jesus actually walking out a parable. The meaning is quite clear, if you can see the spiritual content. We are the fig tree. Someday, Jesus will come, and we had better be bearing fruit, whether in season or out.
Do you have another? Please share.

[larry]

Dear Sister Potters, with some thought of individual verses, I reckon I could cite hundreds of revelations the Lord has given me over the past 38 years as I receive them line upon line, and precept upon precept. My understanding has changed many times, my faith has increased, my love enlarges, and my knowledge of my savior grows in grace.

The theme which has so consumed me in the last few years is seeing more and more of the types, and shadows in the Old Testament, pointing to the revelations of the New Testament. I have come to the conclusion that God did not just tell stories for history’s sake, or there would be much more said, but that He gave us examples to see hidden wondrous things of what he wants us to have, if we have the spiritual eyes to seek and see it.

Some of my favorite are pictures of what God is doing in this age as He seeks a bride for His Son. Now I will just give my sight into this, though this is not original with me. I love Genesis chapter 24 showing a father (God) sending his servant (The Holy Spirit) to seek a bride (Rebecca) from among his own people (The Church) for his son Isaac (Jesus). In this same thought there is the courtship shown in the Song of Solomon, the bride Esther in Esther 5:3 receiving up to half the kingdom, going along with Romans 8:17 of being a joint heir of God IF?

I do not know if this is what you were looking for, but these things keep me running the race for God’s best. God bless you Potters in Jesus’ name - larry :)

[m.o.m.]

Hello Potters House!

I have had so many experiences like this in God's word where God just opens up something in a whole new way. I actually shared one recently in a thread on submission, but I was thinking of another one at the moment. I guess I have grown up with the parable of the prodigal son. Most all my life I heard that story as a story of Jesus looking for the lost -- for those not saved; however after I went through a time of not walking with the Lord as I should I read that story again and it hit me -- the prodigal son was already a son...a child of the father. He chose to leave and walk away, but the father was always there, always waiting, looking for the son as he knew he would be coming back. As God's word promises, He will not lose one of His own.

God is faithful...even when in my human nature, I am not! Psalm 100:5 "For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."


Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.

Refrain

Great is Thy faithfulness!
Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Refrain

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

Refrain

Praise God!

[Potters House]

Thanks Larry and Mom for sharing. Its interesting how we can read a passage or verse over and over again, then suddenly, as we read it again for the 100th time, God opens our spiritual eyes and reveals a deeper meaning. It was there all along. We just didn't have 'eyes to see'.
Another verse that is relatively easy to see is Matt 6:11. " Give us this day our daily bread ". Jesus is 'the bread of life'. His Word is more important to our existance than a loaf of whole wheat.

[canon]

wow thats true