WHAT YOUR EYES SEE WILL MAKE YOU RISE OR FALL! By FELIX N.JARIKRE

The force of perception is so powerful and influential that Satan, your adversary wants to control it. If Satan was not able to get the woman in the Garden of Eden to pay attention to what he had the capability to see, she would not have felt her intelligence was challenged or questionable. (There’s a world of  abundant wealth and riches, provided for man, not subject to the vagaries of times and seasons, but kept hidden. Satan is not only clueless about this universe, his eyes lack the capacity to apprehend it.) Now, man was not mandated to see what Satan had the capability to see. Actually, it would take Adam to neglect or despise the divine command not to eat the tree of knowledge of good and evil before he could see what Satan could see.

 By violating the Creator’s command, the man effectively put himself on the same blind page with Satan. For the man to see his nakedness and shame as a result of his violation  meant he was actually blind. The man’s blindness, without a doubt, translated to the fact that his flesh i.e. physical senses has become his DRIVER or MOTIVATOR. From the Creator’s dealings with man to the point where Jesus Christ gave up his body to be crucified on the cross, it is clear that it takes the removal of  your flesh as your perception of reality for you to become perfect. It takes those who are perfect to exercise their rights as INHERITORS of the earth. The Creator said to Abraham: ‘I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.’ (see the book of Genesis chapter 17)  To the rich young man with a desire to inherit eternal life, Jesus said: ‘If thou wilt be perfect, go sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.’  But as long as man took  the flesh as his perception of reality, becoming perfect was a journey that he was scared to explore. So to the Creator, removing the flesh as man’s perception of reality was a task that must be done. Jesus said: ‘For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.’

Clearly, to rise and not fall, serving the preaching of the kingdom of God is an imperative! Stop your eyes from seeing the things that whispered shame and destitution into your ears. Take your eyes away from the things that make you inferior and insecure. Don’t let what you see determine what you say. Precisely, what you speak from your heart should determine what your eyes should see. Let me repeat this in other words: what you speak from your heart should make your eyes to be  enlightened. You should have selective attention or focus. There’s no law that says your eyes should see everything! Refuse to neglect or belittle in your eyes whatever God is doing in your life, but rather MAGNIFY it!