“YOU HAVE SEEN!”

Deuteronomy 29:2-4                   (ESV)

“2 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "YOU HAVE SEEN” all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

3 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.

4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.”

There are those who never SEE the miracles performed in their lives daily.  They are unaware that they drive down streets with vehicles opposing them at a presumably equal speed and a broken steering mechanism could cause instantaneous death!  Or something as basic inhaling and exhaling can cease at anytime without their knowledge or approval.   Someone or something has to be “in control” of holding things “together” (Colossians 1:17) or everything would be without order?  

The children of Israel had been delivered from the Egyptians and Pharaoh some 40 years earlier, but they had obviously forgotten their miraculous exit?  They were being reminded by GOD ALMIGHTY where HE delivered them from and where they would be without HIS guidance.  But they couldn’t SEE the Spiritual Warfare (Ephesians 6:24) transpiring around them because GOD had not revealed that to them.  Why hadn’t HE???

Hebrews 11:6 says “....without FAITH, it IMPOSSIBLE to please HIM....”!  GOD wants us to TRUST HIM for everything!  If HE revealed HIMSELF “fully” to us, I’m sure we would be so in awe of HIS Majesty and Omnipresence that we would probably sit around HIS throne constantly saying “WORTHY IS THE LAMB” (Revelations 5)!  Of course, by then HIS Glory will be fully revealed to all and there will be no question HE IS GOD!!!

How many miraculous signs can we say “YOU HAVE SEEN”, but like the children of Israel, we have allowed their luster to fade?   There are some of us who are still overwhelmed by HIS Work in our lives and can’t express our gratitude enough.   Our memories may not recollect every precise detail, but we are almost constantly reminded that “YOU HAVE SEEN” the Hand of GOD and have to give HIM Glory constantly!!!