Monday, 5 July 2010
You Will See the Glory of God
Dr RJ Sing
“Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?”
Now let us examine the record of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in the Eleventh Chapter of John. What Jesus asked here of Martha. He asks of all who desire to see the Glory of God. We must believe that we will see. We do not see first, then believe. We believe first, then as a result of believing, we see. Faith comes before sight.
Here then is the basic conflict between the old nature and the New Nature. The old nature demands to see, since the old nature lives by the senses. God has to deliver us from that old nature and that old way of life and bring us to a New Nature and a New Way of Life. In the Book of 2 Corinthians, we are challenged once more by the contrast between the visible and the invisible.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
From the July 2010 issue, themed ‘Something Good Is Going to Happen to Me This Month.
