Volume 1- Day 4
Scripture: Job 31:1a Amplified version
"I dictated a covenant - an agreement - to my eyes..."
The spiritual parallel to the concept of making a covenant with the physical eyes about physical things is to make a covenant with the spiritual eyes about spiritual things. This concept can greatly affect our faith. II Corinthians 4:18 (Kenneth S. Wuest translation) says, "While we are not contemplating the things that are seen, but the things which are not seen, for the things which are not seen are eternal." The KJV says, "While we look not at the things which are seen..."
We can dictate to our minds to focus on the greater realities instead of the lesser ones. God always has an answer to our challenges. To focus on the challenge with only natural thinking can create an impossible or, at least, difficult situation - a real problem. Disgust, discouragement and dismay can result from this approach. How futile and unnecessary this common practice can be. As one songwriter wrote: "Oh! what peace we often forfeit, oh, what needless pains we bear!" Since God always has an answer, as evidenced in II Corinthians 10:13, we should focus on Him through reliance on His Word, communion with the Holy Spirit and the confession of our faith.
I wlll focus on the solution to every problem - God and His Word.
