Clean Your Glasses

Paul longed for the Christians at Ephesus to have the eyes of their hearts enlightened because he knew they were wearing fogged-up glasses. It’s like trying to wear glasses during the pandemic when everyone was completely masked. If you don’t have them on just the right way, they would completely fill with steam and fog, making it nearly impossible to see at all.

Fog on your glasses is like pesticides on your fruit. When you put too many pesticides on your fruit and vegetables, that which was designed and created as organic has now become chemically induced. As a result, it lends itself to the onset of all sorts of potential health problems—even if the taste is somewhat the same as organic.

Many of us have put pesticides on what God has for us, and those pesticides have contaminated our spiritual walk. The main pesticide we have applied to our hearts and minds is called human wisdom. Human wisdom is essentially humanity’s point of view.

The spiritual way to think is God’s way to think. God’s thoughts are organic. His truth is pure. But when we mess up His thoughts and His truth with human wisdom, we open ourselves to becoming spiritually sick. This happens even though we may spend our time chewing on the Word. Human wisdom always nullifies the manifestation and illumination of the wisdom of God and the kingdom authority He wants us to experience.

Scripture tells us clearly that we already have all we need to live out the fullness of our lives. Everything God is ever going to do for you He has already done. He has already deposited the spiritual wealth of your inheritance into your account. All you have to do is access it.

Many of us are going all over the place looking for answers we already have. We are looking for resources we already have. We are looking for purpose we already have. God wants you to know that what you are looking for is already yours. He has already blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies. It’s been credited to your account at the finished work of Jesus Christ.

It’s hard to remember that sometimes. It’s hard to see what is ours sometimes. It’s hard to understand the authority at our disposal, especially when we become so consumed with secular thinking and worldly wisdom or our own human emotions and experiences. It’s easy to lose sight of the spiritual right before our eyes. That’s why Paul wrote what he did. It applied back then just as much as it applies to us today.

Paul prayed that the Christians at Ephesus would be able to see “what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe” (Eph. 1:19). He wanted them, and us, to see God’s power. His power is tied to His kingdom authority.

Power doesn’t amount to much without the authority to use it. Many people who have neglected to pay their electrical bills have power supplied to their homes. They just don’t have the authority to have that power supply connected to their main generator because it has been switched off. Power without the authority to use it is useless. Additionally, power is also useless when we fail to flip the switch or plug in the appliances. God won’t do for us that which He has commanded us to do in obedience to Him. We must act.