While it's not as prevalent nowadays
for us to maybe be walking down the street or throughout the
town and see too many people who are actually perhaps begging
and things of that nature that are physically blind, it is extremely
prevalent in our culture and our society to have spiritual
blindness. Tonight, we could come in here
and there are people that maybe you're spiritually blind. Maybe
you've never seen God. You don't even know what that
even, you don't have a clue as to what I even mean when I say
that. Or maybe you're here and you're like, man, I do know what
it's like to see spiritually, but you really can't see even
the hand in front of your face, so to speak, spiritually, what
God is capable of doing in your life. and the power that he has
to work in you and through you in a way that is beyond what
any of us even ask or the Apostle Paul says even think. If any
single one of us actually expect to experience God, to truly see
God, then there's going to be a passion and a desire. to actually
see God, to actually see Him work in our lives. And that's
challenging because I think if you were to look at any single
one of our lives, we took a real good inventory of our own lives,
we have a whole bunch of passion and desire. The question is,
what's that passion and desire for? Right? Like, do I have the
same passion to see God as I do to have my bank account full?
Do I have the same passion to see God as I do to maybe see
a new relationship in my life? Right? I mean, you can talk to
people about a whole different array of things, and man, they're
immediately into this conversation, we're gonna talk about, bring
up politics, man, shoot. Right? You're gonna get into
this deep discussion about this and that and the other thing,
you can bring up a whole bunch of sports, so on and so forth, but
you bring up God. And what happens to the conversation?
Do you have the same passion and desire? Yeah, let's talk
about how to see God. What is it like to follow God?
What is it like to experience God in my life? And so if we
actually want spiritual sight, it's going to come along with
a passion and desire for that to happen. I think any time we're
actually pursuing God, it happens in community. God never intended
for us to be alone in our relationship with Him. I know that we talk
about, well, I have a personal relationship with Him. I get
it. But really, God called together a people to worship Him, to be
with Him, to be a new humanity, actually, to make difference
and impact, to bring His kingdom into the world. And that's not
just something that's just for me. In fact, it's not even a
pursuit that happens alone. It's something that happens with
other people. God always intended for us to
pursue Him together.