Mark 16:12
“After that He appeared in another form unto two of them as they walked, and went into the country.”
What of Today’s Verse…
To be saved and seeing Jesus is not the same thing. Many are partakers of God’s grace who have never seen Jesus. When once you have seen Jesus, you can never be the same, other things do not appeal as they used to do.
Always distinguish between what you see Jesus to be, and what He has done for you. If you only know what He has done for you, you have not a big enough God; but if you have had a vision of Jesus as He is, experiences can come and go, and you will endure “as seeing Him Who is invisible.” The man blind from his birth did not know Who Jesus was until He appeared and revealed Himself to him. Jesus appears to those for whom, He has done something; but we cannot dictate when He will come. Suddenly at any turn He may come. “Now I see Him!”
Jesus must appear to your friend as well as to you; no one can see Jesus with your eyes. Severance takes place where one and not the other has seen Jesus. You cannot bring your friend unless God brings him. Have you seen Jesus? Then you will want others to see Him too. “And they went and told it unto the residue, neither believed they them.” You must tell, although they do not believe.
“O could I tell, ye surely would believe it!
O could I only say what I have seen!
How should I tell or how can ye receive it,
How, till He brings you where I have been?”
Words of Wisdom
Proving the Word of God
They hurt his feet with fetters: he lay in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
God spoke to Joseph as a young boy through a dream and vision regarding his future. He could not understand its complete meaning at the time, but he knew it had great significance. Joseph knew God had a destiny for his life. However, the proving out of that word from God was filled with thirteen years of waiting, rejection, pain, sorrow and, no doubt, questioning God’s faithfulness.
His life was all but a life of influence and impact as a prisoner and slave. No doubt, he wondered whether that dream was simply some vain imagination. David must have felt the same when he was anointed king over Israel as a young man only to spend years of fleeing from the sword of King Saul. God’s preparation for greatness in His Kingdom is often filled with difficult preparation. God is more concerned about developing the inner life of his servant. That inner life can only be prepared by removing all “self”-confidence and replacing it with “God”-confidence. God-confidence is only developed in the furnace of life.
Is the Lord proving His word in your life? Perhaps He is using circumstances and events to move you into a place of patient waiting as He puts you in the place He desires for you. This is the place where the foundations of your soul mature. Let Him prove your faith.
