Kim Clement:
"Spiritual Equilibrium"
Thus says the Lord, "Make this valley full of ditches." For God says, "You shall NOT see wind, and you shall NOT see rain, yet the valley shall be filled with water, that you may drink..."—2 Kings 3:16, 17

One of our problems is not recognizing things that we see every day, and the result is that we're not aware of their potential because we take them for granted—like gravity, air, etc. The event that we read about in 2 Kings 3 proves that sometimes what we see in our limited capacity can become our ONLY source of supply, thereby blinding us to any other possible sources. We think that it's impossible for God to provide for us outside of recognizable sources. In this story, Elisha is going to teach them a lesson by taking their eyes off their limited resources by blinding them. He says, "You shall NOT SEE the wind, you shall NOT SEE the rain…YET the valley shall be filled with water, that you may drink." Elisha continues to say, "And this is a SIMPLE matter in the SIGHT of the Lord."
Moses used a staff to guide sheep for most of his life and it had become part of his unidentifiable equipment. The only value that he found in the staff was what it was routinely used for, and as a shepherd he had taken it for granted. When God spoke to Moses about the mission he was about to begin, Moses asked God how he would complete the task. I can only imagine how Moses felt when God offered him absolutely no additional weapons but simply asked, "What is in your hand, Moses?" God obviously knew the answer and waited to hear if Moses knew the answer. He didn't. "A staff," he replied. God then instructed Moses to "throw the staff to the ground," and upon doing this, Moses discovered that it was more than a simple piece of wood and now had been transformed into a snake.
Moses only saw his staff turn into a snake when he threw it down. He abandoned his own evaluation of his gift/staff and in so doing SAW something greater.

We take our five senses for granted, and whenever we become so accustomed to the idea that we have five senses, we stop thinking about it. It becomes a matter of common sense. One of the enemies to innovation and creativity is common sense. Bertolt Brecht, a playwright, said that as soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world, it means that we have abandoned all attempts at understanding it.

When God spoke to Jeremiah about being appointed to be a prophet, Jeremiah's response was weak. He told God that he was too young and unqualified to speak to people, let alone nations (Jeremiah 1:6). However, God immediately corrected him and told him that he was NOT to SAY, "I am a youth." His response was OUT OF BALANCE. It was very obvious that Jeremiah had no idea of the creative power of his tongue. We have the idea that our tongue and the words we choose are powerless without action, but that is not true. One word can cause a human being to act in a negative or positive way.

Political leaders have manipulated nations into genocide and drawn them into wars by the power of that small member of our body, the tongue. We take it for granted, and yet the most powerful weapon that satan has against us is the use of words. He whispers, and in so doing divides friends, leaders, families and all possible relationships. Notice how God corrects Jeremiah's negative perception of himself by using words of life and destiny:

"Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my (Jeremiah's) mouth, and the Lord said to me, 'Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. SEE, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.'" He needed Jeremiah to "see" what God had done for him that very day.
What I am suggesting is that there is more to our senses than meets the EYE! There is a spiritual perception attached to each of our senses and God needs us to use these spiritual attachments to our senses in order to "live and walk in the Spirit."
Do you realize that God has to persuade you to see correctly before He can send you into your destiny?

 

Out of Balance
Your natural comprehension of your call and your destiny must align itself with your spiritual perception. You must know where you stand and where you're going. If I say that I am a prophet, but I don't actually believe it, I am actually OUT OF BALANCE. I was reading a book by Ken Robinson PhD, where he says that the one sense that we barely take notice of is not sight, hearing or such, but rather BALANCE. If we are out of balance, we cannot walk, stand, run or even perform the simplest of tasks. Balance is the result of a number of body systems working together. Specifically, in order to achieve balance, the eyes, ears and the body's sense of where it is in space need to be intact.
God tests Jeremiah's spiritual visual input to see if he is possibly out of balance, "Jeremiah, what do you SEE?" Jeremiah's response was obviously pleasing to God. He answered God with the following words, "I see a branch of an almond tree." And the Lord said to him, "You have seen well (suggesting wholeness/balance), I will hasten (accelerate) to perform it."
The importance of visual input for balance is illustrated by the fact that it is harder to stand on one foot with eyes closed than with eyes open. Spiritual sight comes from knowledge, which brings light, that in turn brings balance so that you are spiritually and psychologically united and connected. You can read the full article here

 

 

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