Fixing our Eyes

I have great admiration for all my brothers and sisters in Christ that have given their life in service to Him. It is with that understanding that I am writing this blog. I want us to enjoy the journey together and to travel along with a clear conscience and not attack our brethren. It is the fruit of the labor that we are inspecting and not the laborer.

The Bible is very clear to me about the kind of church that Jesus will call His bride and so it appears to me that something cataclysmic has to change. I can foresee a major upheaval and reconfiguration. I say that only because the Church that we are looking at right now is severely fragmented.

Ephesians 5:25-32 is a powerful message about the church. It ends with verse 32 saying “This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.”

Verses 25, 26 say this, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”

If we look at the present day church and compare it to the church that Paul is describing in Ephesians, it would be easy to conclude that Jesus will not be returning anytime soon. Do not be fooled by what you are seeing.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all, So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

This passage in Corinthians is a wonderful lesson that is chock full of spiritual insight. We cannot look at what we see and get discouraged because what we are seeing is not going to last anyway. The church in its present state is certainly flawed but if we will ask the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of our faith, we will begin to see things more clearly. We will begin to see things as God sees them and then we will slowly begin to understand that this present assembly that we commonly refer to as the church is not what it appears to be.