Psalm 119:18 English Standard Version (ESV) Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
One of the most common things to ask in group bible studies is “What do you see?” The question promotes conversation but what does “seeing” mean?
Matthew 13:15-17 English Standard Version
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. 17 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
We are brought up to reason with our minds, to see with the natural eyes and believe what we see. When we were given this new heart that Ezekiel spoke of in 36:26 there became an ability to understand with the heart. We struggle with understanding that concept because we are taught first to perceive with the eye and understand with our minds. Being born again, awakened to this spiritual life, we have to learn how to understand with our new heart and that is a new thing.
Does the Word of God speak to our inner being?
Romans 7:22 English Standard Version (ESV) For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
2 Corinthians 4:16 English Standard Version (ESV) So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Ephesians 3:16 English Standard Version (ESV) that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,