Daily Journal: 16 July

Spiritual Sight

There are spiritual gifts God gives us for greater spiritual insight and use. We need these spiritual gifts in our life, and God desires that we seek them. Spiritual gifts help us in so many ways – drawing nearer to God, understanding, knowing, and seeing, speaking and building others up in their faith through the use of these gifts.

1 Peter 4:10 (NLT)

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.

As we seek and grow in these gifts, we can live with greater awareness and insight. As God gives us greater spiritual perception we are able to change the dynamics of spiritual powers of opposition. Our senses are elevated. Our knowledge and understanding is elevated. Our decisions are elevated. Our capacity is elevated. We don't just live in the natural with natural eyesight, God desires we have greater spiritual insight in order to live more fully and effectively in the spirit. Everything begins from there.

2 Corinthians 10:4 (NIV)

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

God knows each one of us, completely. But we are still getting to know God. One day, we will have no more need of seeking spiritual gifts because we will have Christ Himself, face to face, and we will know Him just as we are known by Him. When we see Christ, we will see perfection and we will understand perfectly.

1 Corinthians 13:8-12 (GWT)

Love never comes to an end. There is the gift of speaking what God has revealed [prophecy], but it will no longer be used. There is the gift of speaking in other languages, but it will stop by itself. There is the gift of knowledge, but it will no longer be used. Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete. But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will no longer be used. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways. Now we see a blurred image in a mirror. Then we will see very clearly. Now my knowledge is incomplete. Then I will have complete knowledge as God has complete knowledge of me.

How are you pursuing the spiritual gifts God has given you?

I pray that as we seek spiritual sight through the spiritual gifts God gives us, He will increase our capacity to produce what He wants for us.