From Hearing To Seeing

I have heard of You by the hearing of ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.  

Job 42:5-6  

Job’s experiences were life transforming spiritually. His hardships let to his questioning of everything he knew. He questioned God and His ways. Eventually God spoke to Him out of the whirlwind in the same way He had spoken to Moses from the burning bush. This was a Christophany as certainly as Moses’ experience was. If we examine all Christ says of Himself and His relation to all that is, we come to a much deeper understanding of Him. Job experienced this growth in spiritual understanding. Our text is his articulation of this spiritual transformation. He clearly contrasts his former spiritual experience of God with what he gained by all that had happened. Thus he says, ‘I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees You.’ This is the end purpose of our experiences, that we know God more thoroughly than we ever have before. We may have some experience of God already . We may have heard from Him. Our experiences should transform us from hearing from Him to seeing Him. These experiences may be painful, but necessary to bring us to a deeper understanding of the One Who has created us for fellowship with Him. 

Our great and gracious God. 
We rejoice that You continue to develop us spiritually. 
We praise You that you will not cease to work, 
until You have conformed us fully to the image of Christ. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning