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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen   
Mandag, 29. marts 2010 16:00



I resented the idea of flying to the US again.  Shame on me!  The Lord has provided for us a wonderful spa at our daughter´s and son-in-law´s place in Clovis, Ca.  A needed time-out, I think.  My need is not to hit a lot of popular destinations for tourists, though this great country has so much wonderful to offer.  Tourists see a lot, take pictures, but often see very little.  What a thrill it is to let the Spirit open our eyes to God´s world, the real world, in the Bible, and, whenever possible, “with all the saints” enjoy the spiritual dimensions of the fullness of God (Eph. 3:18-19).

O, let us be grateful if we are still able to begin each morning with the Bible “breathed out by God”  (2 Tim. 3:16). We tell the new babes in Christ, “When you read your Bible, God speaks to you, and when you pray, you speak to God.”  A life like that will be a life with eyes that can see and eyes that won´t forget which the eyes of the tourist do.  TV is in my language also called “Fjernsyn” which means “a far away vision”. A Norwegian man of God once quoted to us Jer. 31:3:  “The Lord appeared to me from far away…”, and then he said, “Right here is my fjernsyn (TV)”.  His intimate relationship to God´s word was a continuous revelation “from far away”. That happened to be his TV.

I have known blind believers who see more than seeing believers.  A blind preacher held me in his arms when I was a baby and prayed for me.  “Blind Knudsen” he was called.  He once went to Sweden to have a gifted brother pray for him that he might get his sight.  It didn´t please the Lord to give him his physical sight.  But he was not defeated.  When he came home, he said to his wife, “Before I left for Sweden, my God was in Heaven.  Now He is right here in my room.”  His point was that the Lord had met him in an extraordinary way with His presence.  But he already lived in God´s presence with God´s word (in Braille writing).

You want to go sightseeing?  Go to God´s word!

-jn-

Clovis, March 28, 2010

 
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