Old Dog V
Field Of Vision
Bob Neumann
In the realm of the natural world the Sense of Sight is but one of five ways living things interact with the world around them. In the realm of the spirit it requires us to differentiate beyond our natural abilities and to discern the ESSENCE OF GOD that permeates HIS creation. But the fundamentals of the natural realm are but images of the REALM OF THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. So to grasp the subtleties of the natural order gives us the framework to comprehend and to eventually utilize our SPIRITUAL EYES at our fullest potential. By nature human vision is binocular, which simply means ‘two eyes’. As in this whole series
Vision is best at 20/20. Both eyes equal in acuity and balance with each other. If there is a weakness in one eye the other will attempt to compensate. Years ago children often were diagnosed with “lazy eye” and would wear a patch over the good eye to force the ‘lazy eye’ to work harder. In time the muscles strengthened and the need to compromise the overall ‘vision’ was removed. People with glaucoma or cataracts afflicting only one eye live with a deteriorating situation over a period of time. They often knowingly compensate by getting closer to the tv., not going to movies, driving only during daytime and good conditions, and asking others to read fine print.
Now I said often, not always, regrettably with time our ability to compensate lessens as the overall condition worsens. Many people, for whatever rationale, hide and/or ignore their problem until the problem ‘takes’ command, and their lives (and often others) are altered. Such also is our ‘spiritual sight’ compromised by sin and iniquity that creep into our lives when we attempt to compensate rather than repent. Tragically, too many have become ‘spiritually blind’ while rationalizing our deteriorating state out of fear, pride, or deception.
One of the most serious realities when you look at balance of vision are the difficulties when one is deprived of ëone eyeí. In the natural the attributes of depth perception and the ability to correctly see and evaluate distance is lost when one loses the sight of one eye. It is the uniqueness within GOD’S creation that true sight requires Balance. In our spiritual lives the issue of balance between LOGOS and RHEMA appears more critical each day.
Discernment is an aspect of SPIRITUAL VISION which relies on our ability to perceive beyond the surface: to be able to gaze, as THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT directs, into the deeper and darker flow of HIS SPIRIT, to look out into the distance of our reference of time into the Eternity in which THE SPIRIT OF THE SOVEREIGN LORD moves unhindered and unchallenged.
Yet, by our very nature we fall terribly short of both HIS PERFECTION and HIS GLORY. In a strangely subtle way our CREATOR utilizes our complete selves to do HIS WORK upon the world today. WHY DOES ABBA DO THIS? Personally, I believe there are three major reasons. Again, these are my opinions only based on the sum and total of the 7 Fields within my life.
First is the pleasure our CREATOR has with diversity. color, texture, variety, style – all attributes that display HIS GLORY within all of creation.
Second is the desire of our ABBA to bring us through the ‘process’ of changing us according to HIS GLORY. Through the wilderness, the fire, and the trials are images we acknowledge daily.
The Third I find most intriguing because it shows an aspect of THE LORD OF HOSTS, MY GLORIOUS CAPTAIN the church does not usually see. HE uses us poor sinners saved by GRACE to not only destroy the works of the enemy but to humiliate a once ‘perfect cherub’ whose pride caused him to sin. Not a subtle image, but extremely profound. I have heard HIS LAUGHTER as it shook strongholds.
It is the image of diversity that brings us to the aspect of 7 Fields that shapes us and our vision.
It is this variety that allows us to have scope as well as clarity. Yet it also requires us to see ourselves as parts of and not a whole in ourselves. As Paul said, we all ‘see’ in part, therefore we prophecy but in part, enjoying ABBA’S pleasure as we flow and fit together.
Each one of us is, therefore, a unity of 7 Fields by which our spiritual eyes see and interact on the plain of VISION.
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