Seeing… The Key to Life
Walking down the road to Emmaus, we read that God restrained the eyes of the two disciples from seeing. (Luke 24) They weren’t blind, they simply could not see the truth of Who was in front of them. How does this happen?
We read in Genesis 2:9 a most amazing description of the Garden of Eden.
“And out of the ground the Lord caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
Here is what is amazing about this description. I know what trees look like. I have no idea what “life” or “knowledge” look like. Adam and Eve knew. They knew because they saw every day.
The Hebrew word here for “pleasing to the sight” holds an important meaning for us. It does not mean “pretty”. It means “a spiritual appearance”. It is the same word used in Exodus 3:3 when Moses turned to see “the sight” and beheld a bush that burned but was not consumed. It was a visual register of a spiritual reality. Adam and Eve “saw” this way as a regular part of daily life in the Garden. When they left the garden, in many ways the garden also left them.
Jesus said He came to seek and save “that which was lost” (Luke 19). What if what was lost was more than just Zaccheus? What if one of the things lost, was a way of seeing? Paul tells us that what we lost in Adam, Jesus returned to us…this makes me very curious about what else we lost.
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