TRUE VISION: SIGHT AND LIGHT
I
am the Light of the world.
If
you follow me, you won’t be stumbling
through
the darkness, because you will have
the
light that leads to life.
(John 8: 12)
The
One who is the True Light,
who
gives light to everyone,
was
going to come into the world.
(John 1: 9)
When we talk about true vision, what do we mean? And how do we know if we possess true
vision?
When Man fell in Eden, he lost true
vision and began to see his nakedness. Notice the vital question God asked
Adam: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten the fruit I commanded
you not to eat?” (Genesis 3: 11)
God was saying that Adam had either
been deceived to believe the wrong thing, or he had lost his true vision, that
is, his perception of or capacity for truth. He had begun to see things he
should never be seeing or see things in a wrong way.
In other words, Adam was no longer
seeing what God wanted him to see. He no longer saw from God’s perspective. He
was no longer on the same page with God.
Note that God didn’t ask him, “How come
you are now naked? Who made you naked? How did you become naked?”
Instead, He asked him, “Who told you that you were naked? You didn’t
have that knowledge all this while, and you really should not, because that’s
the wrong kind of knowledge? It appears someone has deceived you into believing you’re not beautiful as I made you. It
appears you have lost the true vision of yourself or me and of life generally.”
God was obviously bothered about His wonderfully
crafted creature and masterpiece of beauty, glory and honor, the very object of
His tremendous love. His inferred lamentation of love goes thus:
“I
made you beautiful and glorious. How did you begin to see yourself as naked all
of a sudden and why are you ashamed of yourself and afraid of Me, your loving Father
and Friend? When
I made you, I said you were good, perfect, and beautiful. But now, you’re
saying that you are just a naked nobody, you’re hiding away from me in fear,
shame and inferiority, and you think you’re not good enough. Who must have told
you that, Adam? Who did this to you, my dear son?
You
must have disobeyed my initial warning to you and eaten that forbidden fruit?
Now you see yourself as naked! Too bad for you, Adam, too bad! You should have
listened to me. I am the One who made you. If there’s anyone who truly loves
you and who you should really listen to, that’s Me, Adam, that’s Me! See what
evil Satan has done to you now. You’ve lost your true vision as I gave it to
you. You can longer relate with Me as before because you no longer see things
as I do and you no longer think as I think. Now, you’re a threat to My
Government instead of being My ambassador to represent Me on Earth, and My administrator
to manage my property as I gave you the Commission and Dominion so to do. I
can’t really trust you anymore until I fix this damage done to you. You’ll have
to leave this garden for now, until I make plans for your restoration.”
With he lost of his true vision or
sight, Man lost his freedom to live the great life, fruitful and abundant, as
God intended. He lost his capacity for the knowledge of true beauty. He no
longer saw himself as beautiful, covered with God’s glory. He became blind to
and unaware of his honor and beauty. He lost sight of the beauties and glories of
life. He lost the true light and fell into gross darkness. He lost liberty and fell
into bondage. He became blind to truth.
It has been said that blindness is not
just the inability to see but also the ability to see darkness only. Blindness
and darkness are the same in effect. They breed fear and lead to bondage or
severe limitation.
Even with good sight, vision remains
impaired, in fact useless and ineffective, in darkness. Also, with all the
light and no sight, there’s no vision at all.
True
vision occurs at the merging and collaboration of true sight and true light. When
we have the seeing capacity for truth in ourselves and we walk in the true
light of the revelation knowledge of God’s Word, we have true vision.
True
vision is seeing as God sees; seeing through the “eyes of God,” the very “eyes
of beauty”.
True sight ensures true
vision. True light enables true vision. Truth and vision bring freedom and empowerment. We
need both sight and light to see accurately.
In his book Born After Midnight, A.
W. Tozer explained this concept further:
The coming of knowledge is like the
rising of the sun.
But sunrise means nothing to the
unseeing eye.
Only the sighted benefit from the light
of the sun
...One may have light without sight; he
is blind.
Another may have sight without light;
he is temporarily blind,
but the coming of light quickly enables
him to see.
…IT IS ALWAYS NIGHT TO A BLIND MAN,
and it is always day to a man with a
lantern—provided he can see....
The gospel is light but only the Spirit
can give sight.
When seeking to bring the lost to
Christ
we must pray that they may receive the
gift of seeing.
And we must put out prayer against that
dark spirit,
WHO BLINDS THE HEARTS OF MEN.
Now, what did Jesus, the True Light,
really come to the Earth to do? Hold on, let the Master speak for himself:
The
Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because
He has anointed Me
To
preach the gospel to the poor;
He
sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To
proclaim liberty to the captives
AND
RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO
SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE
OPPRESSED;
To
proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.
(Luke 4: 18, NKJV)
Jesus the Light came to restore
sight to Man, so Man could be truly free from the bondage, captivity and
oppression of spiritual darkness and spiritual blindness—to set Man free to
live the beautiful life God planned for him from the Beginning.
Also, He told the people in His days, “I am
the light of the world. If you follow Me, you won’t be stumbling through the
darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.” (John 8: 12)
There are so many so-called “lights”
today. So many attempting to lead Man “back to God” and trying in their own way
to “enlighten” and “illuminate” Man so he can “know who he really is”, “live as
he really should” and attain his “higher self”. But they’re still stumbling and
groping as in the dark.
Men are still trying to “feel after God” as it were, with their sensual perception or intellectual prowess. But God who is Spirit had concluded not to strive with Man after the Fall because man was “indeed flesh”—his spirit dimension was dead—blind, in darkness and not functional. (Genesis 6: 3) That’s why when the time was right, He sent Jesus to restore Man to true life.
There’s
only one true light … JESUS CHRIST!
He is also called the Word of God (John
1: 1, 14. Revelations 19: 13).
There it was – the true Light
[was then] coming into the world
[the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light]
that illuminates every person.
(John
1: 9, AMP)
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