Title

Seeing God

Scripture
Their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
(Luke 24:16)
Devotional
God is seldom what we expect Him to be. Most often we equate God’s character with ours. We see things through our own eyes instead of through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. Instead of seeing the true character of God through Christ, we visualize Him through our own biases and prejudices. If we look at Christ through any other eyes than that which is revealed in the scriptures, we are looking through tainted eyes. We often fail to recognize the things of God because we do not know nor understand the Word of God. These two men on the road to Emmaus failed to recognize Jesus until He spoke the Word to them. Once they saw Him through the eyes of scripture, verse 31 says, “Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him.” God does not reveal Himself through emotion or mysticism. He reveals Himself through His Word and by His Spirit; and the two will never contradict each other.
Thought For The Night
“What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.” G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945), English pastor and Bible expositor. He authored more than 60 Bible commentaries and books of sermons.
 
Evening Text
Luke 24:16: Their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
 
Looking for Answers
Evening Study Guide
Defining: “Seeing” involves more than the stimulus of sight. Consider Matthew 13:14,  “The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive.’”
Referencing: “And beginning at Moses and  all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself,” Luke 24:27.
 
Applying: If you wish to see God, just look into His Word and He will be revealed to you.