Through the Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, Finding Incredible Power

by Levi Lusko

INTRODUCTION THE NAKED EYE

How many times had I sat next to people who were suffering but been completely unaware of the agony they were going through?

verse from Romans 3:22 caught my attention: “The righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.”

This is the war: every moment of every day, we must make the all-important choice of whether we will rely on the naked eye.

Will we trust what we can see is there, or believe what God says is there?

The apostle Paul put it this way: “So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we ...

WILL WE TRUST WHAT WE CAN SEE IS THERE, OR BELIEVE WHAT ...

For every person who has been destroyed by suffering, there are probably ten who have been wrecked by success. Trust me when I say this: the issue isn’t whether your life is going well or falling apart; the question is, what makes you so sure you can tell the difference?

Things are seldom as they appear.

What is so important about this Bible story (2 Kings 6:15–17) is that the angels didn’t show up when Gehazi’s eyes were opened.

They were there when he couldn’t see them. Present but invisible.

Gehazi was staring at them every time he looked outside; he just didn’t know it. When God opened Gehazi’s eyes to see the unse...

So it is spiritually. You must not rely on the naked eye. What you think you see is not all that is there. There are unseen things. Spiritual things. Eternal things.

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