They Don’t see yet….

I look out at the sea of faces.  My good friend is telling them all…

“This is Bob Hamp he has something important to say to you…”

Whether I have something to say or not, I am still unsure, but of several things I AM certain.  They are loved more deeply than they can conceive, they are here for something other than what  they think,  and last but not least, I feel certain they don’t see yet.

Whether I have something important to tell them …we’ll see.  But I cannot leave until I show them these three important things.

They think God is aggravated that they don’t act better than they do.  I must help them see…He loves them more than they know, and He thinks of them all the time.  He eagerly desires to be close to them and to Father their hearts.

They think they came for fun and then to be talked to; to hang out with their friends and get  pumped up to try harder this week than they did last week. They don’t know yet that Someone has been waiting to meet with them.  He likes their company, and His heart bursts with Fatherly pride when they walk in the room.  He’s not proud of them for attending.  He’s proud of them because that is the way a good Dad feels about His children.

And last but not least…they think they see.  The world as they know it, arranged in front of their senses, tells them a story.  True or not, they have believed the story because their senses don’t lie, do they?  They are certain that their ongoing picture of life and self and God is exactly as it is.  Jesus healed blind people all the time.  Ironically everyone He met on earth was blind.  Those who were most blind were the ones who were sure they could see.

My friend introduces me…I grab ahold of my seeing-eye-Savior and walk to the center of the platform.  I begin to sense God’s deep love for each of them and I open my mouth.  They don’t see yet…but we will soon.