Beachcombing one Saturday morning on the shore of Topsail Island, I realized something pretty cool. As I walked along the abundant crush of seashells and things, my son walked a few feet behind me, on the same path. Every so often, he would say, “Hey mom, you missed this one!”, “I can’t believe you missed this one!”, or “Are you wearing your glasses, because you missed another good one?”. NO, I was not wearing my glasses, and I refuse to think that my 40+ years had anything to do with my overlooking the big ones. Then, clear as my vision is from behind those prescription glasses, I heard my Savior say:
“As you and your son are looking at the same sandy shell bed, searching for the same thing, you each find exactly what you were intended to find at exactly the right moment.”
Jump back! What an awesome teacher our Savior is. This is exactly how it is with His word! We can read the same scripture or hear the same message and get completely different rewards from them. Or, something that may speak to my heart with great significance or result in a clear understanding for me, may speak to your heart differently. We see in the word what we were intended to see at exactly the moment we were intended to understand it. Isn’t that cool!? Have you ever been exposed to a particular scripture repeatedly before, but it never jumped out to you and stuck? And then, one day, hear the same scripture and all of a sudden, you ‘see’ it for the first time?
Praise God for being with me on the beach that morning and revealing to me the significance of our different “eye sight”.
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