"And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer....and will tell thee all that is in thine heart." 1 Samuel 9:19
"But blessed are your eyes, for they see." Matthew 13:16a
Weather report is an everyday essential. Weather affects our food, profit, pleasure, travel, and space efforts. What would we do without modern-day seers? We need the fullest possible knowledge.
Such analysis and perspective are absolutely necessary to every field of endeavour- to agriculture, medicine, psychiatry, science, education and government. "Where there is no vision,the people perish" (Proverbs 29:18).
Who will be anxious about my eternal welfare? I need that help today. I need the seer. I need the prophet who says to me "I am the Seer... and I will tell thee all that is in thine heart."
I need to know the "highs" and the "lows"- the storm paths that will challenge my faith. I need to know the possibilities that are within my reach.
You might think Paul had visited the greatest research laboratory of his time when he writes "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out" (Romans 11:33).
Child of God, I want to talk to you! What permanent benefit is it to you to be able to co-ordinate weather reports if you cannot discern the day in which you live? Jesus Christ asked that question, ".... Ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not dicern this time?" (Luke 12:56).
You can tell foul from fair. Then why can't you tell right from wrong? You would not run a business the way you run your life. You want to know the prospects and the pitfalls.
Mister, you need something more than polls, investment council, business analysis and forecast, professional guidance. You need an old-fashioned sense of eternity. You need help to know how you are, what you are, and where you are going.
That is what Jesus Christ means when He says, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see." Look, my friend - look ahead! If you will, it will not take long to see God's hand in the affairs of men.
You had better see something more to your life than tonight's party and what you are going to wear for cocktail at eight. Your life has meaning and destiny. My prayer for you is that you will see it in time.
There is a desperate need for more leaders who see the ruinous effects of wrongdoing. Its is immorality and illegality at the top levels of society that filter down their dubious ethics and set the tone for attitude and action in the lower strata of society. Remember that! What the King does - whoever the king may be - gives the commoners their cue for conduct, both privately and publicly. Lawlessness sinks down from the top. It does not seep up from the bottom.
It is public official arranging for land to be zoned, rigging prices, and making illicit fortunes out of crooked real estate deals. It is a combination of drug firms conspiring to inflate the price of a certain medicine a thousand-fold beyond its cost. That becomes the basic soil for looters and vandals.
We need to climb in this nation. Pilots flying at low altitude sometimes have their vision obscured by clouds and fog. To free themselves of this handicap they climb to a high altitude of clear visibility.
Habakkuk found that solution. He escaped spiritual panic by climbing. The squalid condition of his day and the threat of total moral collapse closed in upon his soul. So he climbed!
"I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch and see what He will say unto me" (Habakkuk 2:1). The result was a revival of personal faith.
What are the majors and the minors to living? what really matters in life when the score is posted? You need to see through certain things, and beyond certain things.
Dr. Polycarp Kusch stated this conviction: "Science, in itself, is not the source of the ethical standards, the moral insight, the wisdom that is needed to make value judgments... I am quite certain that the masses of men believe that the better world of tomorrow will come through science. I think that the belief ought to be publicly combated. Science can indeed produce some of the knowledge and many great artefacts that will lead to the better life. It has, for example, produced the technically magnificent feat of television. You would also agree that the technical excellence of the television does not guarantee that it will enrich lives, to say nothing of demeaning it".
Parents need to be seers more than merchant providers or generations competitors are. They need to build family altars where sight is intensified, and where they can claim for their children eternal advantages.
It demands courage. It is not easy for a father to lay down a rule and enforce it because he knows it is for his son's welfare in the years which are ahead. But without it, the nation perishes.
Our founding fathers were seers. They looked into a wilderness and saw a nation. They committed themselves to an ideal. Like Habakkuk, there stirred in their souls the sense of destiny.
"The vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Habakkuk 2:3).
So they kept faith! They believed. Without that Mister, neither citizen nor leader will have a sense of responsibility. The alternative is a wild grab.
They make or break of this nation is still carried in the late President Kennedy's sentence: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country will do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
Right now we need SIGHT more more than we need MIGHT. Lift up your eyes! Take a look! What do you see, church member? What vision stirs you? Mister, look into your own soul. Samuel said to Saul, "I will tell thee all that is in thine heart."
He saw in that fascinating, loveable son of the tribe of Benjamin, all the potential that could have written the first King of Isreal into the eleventh chapter of Hebrews. And he saw all the failure and all the rebellion that left him a suicide on Mount Gilboa.
Sir, get to a gospel service today, where the man of God sees through the Word of God and tells you "all that is in thine heart."
Men of vision have given Earth the benefits we enjoy today. Alexander Graham Bell gave us the telephone. Thomas Edison gave us the incandescent light. The Wright brothers gave us the airplane.
What vision beckons you? What do you sense beyond clothes to wear, food to eat, fun and frolic or the sensual, the animal existence?
Samuel said to Saul, "But stand thou still awhile, that I may show thee the word of God" (1 Samuel 9:27).
Child of God, you need to see beyond today, you need to see beyond this mortal life. May God help you.
A reproduction of Apostle G.D. Numbere's article published in the Sunday Tide of 16th and 30th November,1986.
Visions of God: The apocalypses of our Savior, Jesus Christ, given to John, the last of the twelve apostles : a practical interpretation of the visions of the seer of Patmos
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