"AND HE SAW!"

2 Kings 6:17-19                                  (ESV)
"17 Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, please OPEN HIS EYES THAT HE MAY SEE." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, "AND HE SAW", and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So HE struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Samaria.



Many times in my life I have not seen things "eye to eye" with an adversary regarding a certain item we were dealing with.  Looking at things from my viewpoint I certainly could have been correct.  But from another viewpoint, they thought they were correct.  To be brutally honest, the times I was wrong were not easy admitting to, and the times I wasn't wrong was only by the grace of GOD.

In the scripture above, Elisha humbly begged GOD to open the eyes of a man so he could see the protection surrounding Elisha.  In verse 17 Elisha said "O LORD, please......", and the verse concludes with "AND HE SAW", and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha".  Now in my selfishness, I might have let those who couldn't SEE the protection around me become aware at the end of the sword, but Elisha understood that GOD being glorified was more important than him being judged as being right, and his desire was GOD being glorified first!

Maybe our struggle really is NOT with flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12), "but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places".  Elisha could see his protection, yet when the Syrians came down against him he prayed for their eyes to be blinded!  2 Corinthians 4:4 says "In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of CHRIST, WHO is the image of GOD".  The god of this world blinds those who are satisfied with what he offers.

GOD has the capability of opening eyes to see and allowing eyes not to see!  In Exodus 14:4 Pharaoh was blinded by his own hardened heart, and GOD got glory over him and all his army.  In the end, the Egyptians knew that I AM was THE LORD!  Elisha prayed that the young man eyes may see, "AND HE SAW"!  GOD can reveal, or GOD can blind!  My prayer is that GOD reveal to me the things needed for HIM to get glory in my life, and it will be said of me "AND HE SAW"!!!