Article December 18, 1954 Issue

"RECEIVE THY SIGHT"

ELSIE M. THOMPSON

How many times the Bible prefaces the statement of a great spiritual truth with the word behold. The first chapter of Genesis, after setting forth the wonders of creation, states that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (verse 31). The same chapter also states that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him" (verse 27). Would it not be correct to say, then, that man, the idea of God, sees everything that He has made, and, behold, it is very good?

Man, God's expression or reflection, sees every good thing. No claim of evil can obstruct his vision, because nothing can separate him from God. Sight is as eternal as Life itself. True sight cannot be added to man by using a piece of glass. The real man already has perfect sight, the forever unchangeable sight of Spirit. The scope of spiritual vision is far beyond any material sense of sight. But one must clearly perceive this great fact in order to demonstrate its reality.

Spiritual discernment is true sight. When someone clarifies something which we have not understood, we exclaim, "Oh, I see." Jesus said to one apparently blind (Luke 18:42), "Receive thy sight." He might have said, "Receive thy ability to discern."

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