SPIRITUAL
EYESIGHT

ON TOP of my house, I have a DirecTV satellite dish. This DirecTV satellite dish links me to a satellite orbiting the Earth in outer space. That satellite in space sends a signal to my dish and to the dishes of anyone who has DirecTV. Now, you can’t see the satellite, but it does send a signal to the receiver connected to my house. When my receiver, which is attached to my house, picks up the signal from the satellite that I can’t see circling the Earth, I get a picture on my television.

Before I got satellite TV, I had basic television that allowed me to get about six channels. That was the extent of my reception. I had an antenna attached to my roof that helped me to get those stations. But when I got DirecTV, something graphically changed in my TV viewing. Now I could pick up stuff I never would have seen before. Now I can get stations like USA, ESPN, CNN, and TNT. I was able to get channels I never knew existed because now I was connected to something much higher. Before I was connected to a roof antenna, but now I am connected to “outer space.”

When we come to Jesus Christ, God screws a satellite receiver into our souls. He quickens our spirits so that we can pick up the Trinitarian network. Because He hooks up a new receiver, we can pick up a new signal not available to us apart from Him. The Holy Spirit takes the dimmer switch and turns on the light so that we can see the spiritual nature of a thing, not merely the thing itself.896

[Holy Spirit, Guidance; God’s Voice]

Rom. 8:9–11

MANY of us are well aware that when tornado trackers track tornadoes, they try to get close enough to them so that they can send all of these chemicals and all of these high tech pieces of equipment into the midst of the tornado in order to be able to gather information from the tornado itself. It’s very dangerous to chase a tornado. If it ever turns on you, you’re in trouble. It’s a lot safer to track a hurricane. You wouldn’t think so given the power of some hurricanes, but hurricane trackers are different from tornado trackers. Tornado trackers track from the ground. Hurricane trackers track from the air. They travel above the hurricane. They get really high. Because of their altitude, they’re able to see things without being endangered by the hurricane itself even though what they’re looking at is very dangerous.

Many Christians today feel as if their lives are spinning out of control, just like those hurricanes. They feel that their lives are in a state of frenzy and disaster. It’s one thing to try to look at those kinds of circumstances from ground level; it’s a whole different thing to look at things from a higher altitude. It’s a different matter to try to see things from God’s perspective.897

[Life, Perspective on]

Ps. 33:13; Heb. 4:13