Mark 8:22-25
One day Walt Disney took his friend for a ride way out in the country. They drove off the main road and drove through groves of trees to a large uninhabited expanse of land. A few horses were grazing, and a couple of old shacks remained. He stopped the car, got out, and started to describe with great vividness the wonderful things he was going to build. He wanted his friend Arthur to buy some of the land surrounding his project to get in on the ground floor. But Arthur thought to himself, who in the world is going to drive 40km for this crazy project? Walt told his friend, "I can handle the main project myself but it will take all my money. The land bordering where we're standing now, will in just a couple of years, be jammed with hotels, restaurants and convention halls to accommodate the people who will come to spend their entire vacation here at my park." "I want you to have the first chance at this surrounding acreage, because in the next five years it will increase in value several hundred times." His friend turned down the opportunity to buy up all the land that surrounded what became Disneyland in 1955.
At the opening of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in 1971 it is said that someone commented, “It’s a shame that Walt was not alive to see it” – the response was, “It is here today because he did see it”
Jesus asked the blind man, “Do you see anything”? He was asking if he could see what had not previously been a reality to him.
What about you? Can you see, through the eyes of faith, things that have not yet been manifested in your life?
Breakthroughs in your finances, relationships with others, health, deeper relationship with God
Breakthroughs in your finances, relationships with others, health, deeper relationship with God
Do you, through the eyes of faith, see these possibilities or will you look back at the end of this year through the eyes of reflection and “see” what could have been but isn’t?
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for & certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1)
The very essence of faith is to “see” as reality what does not exist at that point of time and to be “certain of what we do not see.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983)
If we are to possess the promises of God to us we must “see” them as being already possessed.
The eyes of reflection look back at what was whilst the eyes of faith look forward to what can be. The eyes of reflection see regret whilst the eyes of faith see hope & possibilities.
“Do You See Anything”
Pastor Richard Doherty
Melton Assembly of God
Pastor Richard Doherty
Melton Assembly of God