Filters

This week I received a new game for the Wii from a friend, a really fun family-party game called Cranium Kabookii, and as some of you may have guessed from the name, it is based on the popular tabletop board game Cranium now the interesting thing about this game is that the one person on a team who is performing tasks such as charades or drawing is given the answer on the screen in a form of a “color coded” word, which can only be properly seen by the use of a red filter “decoder”… without the decoder the answer appears as just a jumbled mess.

This got me thinking how much this is similar to the spiritual concept of faith. We as humans tend to see things with our human eyes, when in-fact we are supposed to see them through the eyes of God; through His faith eyes.

Many times I can say in my own life, I have been guilty of seeing things with my limited and wrong human vision. Every time I look at myself and see symptoms and lies of the enemy trying to destroy my faith, I am immediately tempted to start thinking the worst, when in-fact my eyes of faith would remind me of Bible truth; that God desires for me to live, and live abundantly. Even though my human eyes would lie to me and the enemy would try to get me to doubt my healing or to be afraid, I must view the situation through the eyes of faith being certain of the promises of God and to not
waiver.

This is most plainly said in the following scripture… Romans 4:16-25:

“Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for
our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” 

Just as Abraham believed by faith that he would father many nations, and also believed in faith that his wife could still conceive – even though her womb was “dead”, so too must we believe, because after all, God is God!

We must see things not with our human eyes, but instead with
our eyes of faith, seeing the promises of God as true and already accomplished… Just as in the game which I mentioned earlier, we must see things through our “God filter” — through the filter of Divine Faith.

May we all continue to stay connected to the Vine every day,
and by doing so see things through His eyes more than our own.