It was a normal Sunday 40 years ago—and then God took the
scales from my eyes (Acts 9:18). We had
been to church and Sunday School. In our
adult class, we had lively discussion about John 6:1-14, Jesus feeding the
5000. The idea was presented that the
greatest miracle is the miracle that changes our hearts. With all those people there, the probability
was highly unlikely that the only food available was from one little boy with 5
loaves and 2 fish. The real miracle was
that, seeing Jesus bless the boy’s offering, everyone’s hearts changed so that
they shared what they had and their extreme generosity resulted in 12
basketfuls left over.
Then we got in the car to go home. Our 3 year old daughter exploded from the
back seat: “You won’t believe what Jesus did!
He took just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish and He made it so there was
enough to feed thousands and thousands of hungry people. And everyone got full and even had leftovers! Isn’t that great! It was a miracle!”
Nailed.
Convicted. In that moment the
scales fell off my eyes. I saw the
miracle afresh, in its truth: Jesus
miraculously multiplied the loaves and fish.
Period. The faith of a child was
what I returned to. I had let my adult
intelligence, knowledge, and experience get in the way. Jesus tells us in Matthew 18:3 to be like
little children. Child-like faith is
humble, pure, believing, and oh so beautiful to our Lord.
Have you, like me, let your adultness get in the way of
seeing Jesus? When it comes to God and
the things of God we just have to abandon all we think we know, human logic (Isaiah
55:8,9 and 29:14). We must cast down
reasonings, intellectual arrogance, proud ideas, arguments, and theories so
that our very thoughts obey Christ and exalt and magnify Him (2 Corinthians
10:5).
Return to the child of God in you. Ask Him.
He will take the scales off your eyes.
Delight in God’s Word Psalm
119:162, 77
See Him anew in the world around you. Psalm 119:18
Rejoice
in your child-like faith Romans 10:17, Philippians 4:4
