We are walking in today: The Problem Is Not What You See, But What You Look At!!!!
Witness consider throughout the Bible: H7200 ra'ah--to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Torah: Exodus 33:13; Leviticus 13:13
Prophets: 1 Samuel 25:17; Isaiah 41:20, 52:15; Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 12:3
Writings: Judges 19:30; 2 Kings 5:7; Job 11:11; Psalm 8:3, 25:19, 45:10, 119:159; Eccleasties 4:1, 4:4, 7:13, 7:14;
Proverbs 24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
John 9:41 Jesus said, “If you were really blind, you would be blameless, but since you claim to see everything so well, you’re accountable for every fault and failure.”
I’m so excited about this simple but elusive lesson.
In the Western culture that many of us grew up in, we were taught that you call a spade a spade; you call things by their names and you don’t mince words. You must say things outright, and you must be forthright. But in the Torah it is not always regarded as a virtue to say things the way they are. This does not mean that one should lie, the Most High forbid. But one can say the same thing in many different ways, some of them positive, and some of them negative. For example, if you have to explain something to a person, you can say it very coarsely, or you can get your same point across by saying it in completely different, much more pleasant words. The person will understand you just as well, but meanwhile you didn’t contaminate your mouth. Your mouth was kept pure, because you were careful which words went out of it. Just like we have to be careful what goes into our mouths, in terms of kosher food, etc. The same way we have to be careful about what comes out of our mouths. This is easy enough to understand.
Just as the Torah teaches us that we must be careful with the way we speak, in the same parshah the Torah also teaches us that we must take care regarding what we look at. Of course, you cannot always control what you see. However, the problem is not what you see; the problem is what you look at! You cannot walk around with your eyes closed, but once something questionable pops into your range of vision, don’t look again. Peeking a second time is called looking, not seeing. This again is radically different from Western Culture which claims that television, for example, doesn’t harm you, because of course you realize that television is not real. You can look at anything; you are an intelligent person.
They Did Not See Their Father's Nakedness
As a witness we’ll speak on Noah and his three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and grandson Canaan. The particular time Noah planted a vineyard and found himself intoxicated by partaking much of the fruit of his labor. Canaan son of Ham happen to come across his grandfathers drunken state while his grandfather was passed out naked uncovered, exposed for all to see. The amusement of Canaan caused shame latter as He informed his uncles of their fathers situation. Shem and Japheth counted it dishonorable to see their fathers nakedness. They approached him backwards as to be blind to uncovered Noah to cover his nakedness without scorn nor shame.
My question is are we blind to others short comings as the spiritual lesson is being taught about Canaan’s seeing exposed Noah, and not covering him but judging His grandfather?
“Did you see what Prophetess Willamea had on like she stepped outta the bed this morning....”
“I heard some questionable things on Min. Jenkins past relationship. Girl he ain’t changed.....”
“Don’t tell Elder Leroy nothing, mouth like a rusted tin roof, just drip, drip, drip”
If you are not looking, you don’t see! So why does the Torah need to mention the obvious?” The Torah’s treasure teaches a person a very fundamental lesson in interpersonal relationships — how to avoid speaking bad things about other people, and how to avoid seeing bad things in other people.
When a person sees evil in another person, he is really being shown the evil in himself. The other person is simply a mirror which reflects the image of the person looking into it. You see something bad in another person because you have that same negative quality in some form or another.
If you are the kind of person who always sees negative things in other people, that is a red light. It means that you have a lot of work to do on yourself. When you look into a mirror, if your face is clean, you don’t see dirt in the mirror. But if you see dirt on the face of the person in the mirror, you need to wash your face, not the mirror!!
There is a verse that states that, “Love covers all flaws.” A similar English expression is, “Love is blind.” When there is love you do not see faults. When you are in love with someone, they are perfect. A mother doesn’t see her child’s flaws, a wife who’s in love doesn’t see her husband’s deficiencies. If this is true of one person’s love for another, how much more so is this true with self-love. Self-love is the strongest love of all. When a person is in love with himself, he finds it very difficult to really see his own shortcomings.
How does the Most High get you to become aware of the deficiencies in yourself? By letting you see them in another person. We can even prove this by citing a well-known phenomenon.
There is a simple test which will clarify which lesson the Most High intends to convey to us: If the first reaction upon seeing this flaw in the other person was, “how bad this person is..." "Just look at her, such terrible behavior…” If your reaction is like Cham — to talk about it, and tell people, “Look what happened, look at this person, she’s so this, she’s so that… can you believe it?!” — then you’re not interested in helping the other person. Accordingly, you should know that you yourself have the same problem, albeit in a different way, and you had better look into yourself and do teshuvah. We see that Shem and Yefes didn’t talk about the problem, they acted — and covered their father’s nakedness.
When one is not blind to place ill intention by sight only--there is resemblance of character. Faults and inefficiency are made aware to us. Yet as children are blind with innocence to the ways of hasatan’s world. So too are we as children of the Most High, need to be born again taught the right way to see and that is to become blind. To see in the Kingdom of Elohim is to be blind and to be blind is to see. In the world of hasatan it is always counterfeit an opposite.
We must learn as citizens of The Kingdom of The Most High. How to cover us and see as Abba sees, His image and likeness lead by His promised Ruach HaKodesh!!! Am I my brothers or sisters keeper? Or will I make fun of or minimize their value and miss the mark short of the great commandment?? To love as I am loved by The Most High.
Here lies true discipleship. If you can see. How can you not believe without looking being blind First?
Shema Selah we must hear, listen and obey that our eyes will be focused on what He is showing us about us!! Thank you the Most High for all that you set before us for our understanding!! Facebook LIVE video
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