02/06/2021
Secrets Of Spiritual Vision:
1. ‘SINGLE’ MEANS SINGLY FOCUSED ON GOD
So the first secret of spiritual vision is that you must focus totally upon God if you are going to see anything clearly in the spiritual life, if you are going to ever see the glory of Christ. No divided heart will ever see anything. What is more, the agony of it is this: when you pray, let me tell you right now, God does not answer. I say that on Bible authority, not on my authority. When you pray, with your double vision, God does not answer you. That is what we read in Jam. 1:7-8. There, James says, “Let not the double-minded man think that he will ever get anything from the Lord.” When he prays, he gets no answer because he is unstable in all his ways. Only the single-minded person, the person with single-hearted devotion to God, ever gets his prayers answered as he could expect God to answer. But the double-minded man, the double-visioned man - the man with the ‘spiritual’ double vision - he gets nowhere. God does not want to hear this kind of person.
If your prayers do not get answered, you had better ask whether you are totally devoted towards God - your vision is concentrated on Him - or whether you are still trying to play around serving two masters, [i.e., you have] one foot in the kingdom of God and the other foot in the world. You cannot do this kind of thing. God does not accept people like this. I have warned people again and again in meetings, in conferences or wherever it may be. There is only one kind of Christian acceptable to God; that is the total Christian. It is the person who is totally committed to God. The divided man has no acceptance with God. You pray to God; He does not want to hear you. What is the point of being a Christian if God does not talk to you and does not listen to you?
2. ‘SINGLE’ MEANS SIMPLE AND UNCOMPLICATED
Secondly, the thing we find about this word ‘single,’ as I checked it out in its usage in the original is this: the word means also ‘simple.’ Now, what is single is simple. ‘Simple’ means uncomplicated, unmixed, unadulterated, unconfused, and also, unsophisticated in the bad sense of that word. Are you a complicated kind of person? Is your faith singly devoted to God? You see, when you have double vision, things get very complicated. You have to sort out which is the right thing. You look at majority Christians. They are so confused. There is confusion because they find things very complicated.
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