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1 Kings 21:9 – Do We See What We See?
As we get older, our eyes play tricks on us. We think we see what we see, but what we see is not what we see, we see what we don’t see.
Did you eyes play tricks on you in reading that?
Sometimes it’s not age related, for whatever inexplicable reason we just don’t see what we should see. Then one day, POP! We see what is really there and are amazed, and maybe dismayed.
For example, in reading the account of Naboth’s vineyard, and the trickery of Jezebel, I always had seen, “Proclaim a feast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people.” (1 Kings 21:9). Do you know which word I got wrong, again and again and again?
One day, when reading, I saw what I hadn’t seen before, which means I saw what I really saw – “Proclaim a fast….” A diametric difference between fast and feast, isn’t there? Similar in word form, vastly diverse in function.
To this day, I don’t understand why. But in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter…on that verse.
An older lady read Jesus’ words in Mark 16:16, He that believes shall be saved…. The teacher asked her to read it again, so she read, He that believes shall be saved…. The teacher again asked her to read the passage, this time requesting that she put her finger under each word. Slowly she read, He that believes and is baptized shall be saved…. Shocked, she had never before seen what she had just seen. I wonder why. Sometimes our beliefs can play tricks on our eyes.
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