Circular reasoning

Mar 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? What are you missing today? As habitual creatures we tend to see but not really see. The man that reportedly discovered the cities of Sodom and Gomorra after centuries of being undiscovered said that he had been traveling the same road for months on his way to work. One day while driving along something caught his eye and upon second glance he had to stop he looked and looked, finally going over and looking and upon examination was thoroughly amazed that it was an entire city. As the report goes the city is completely incinerated but the ashes are still in there form of the buildings from centuries ago! Do you think he was the first person to travel that road? Then why hadn't others before him seen this fantastic marvel and work of God? In some of my readings of literature it was brought to my attention that we see but don't really train our selves to see! I pondered that and did a lot of recollecting of personal data and find this to be so true. We really need to train the eyes to see. I had a good friend once go into the mountains with me and as we were driving along he would stop often and say look see there, and me I looked and looked and saw nothing. I would ask him what am I suppose to see. And he would say the particular type of animal. Ok so I looked and looked again and would see nothing, then he would chuckle and say watch …. honking his horn and not 50, 60 yards away a mule deer or elk would jump and take off running. The animal was right there in front of me in plain view but I could not see it! There is a saying that goes like this (with a trained eye you can see…..). The training of the eyes and ears is as important to a Godly life as prayer. Why do I say this because if you don't you wont know how to seek out the truth or know what to pray for!

I heard a lesson recently about how people expect physical signs from God and how wrong these people are for doing this. Silly people, God doesn't work like that, he doesn't do that anymore. The speaker said that we have no need of these signs (he was not talking about the gifts of the spirit either but physical and material blessings) due to the fact that we have the bible and it is complete! We do have the complete scriptures true but the rest was very contradictory to the scriptures!! Then what I thought really silly or redundant was that at the end of the service the gentleman giving the closing prayer says this….. and father be with ---- as she is recovering from her operation and be with ------- as she is preparing for her operation and father be with them and care for them in their times of difficulty, and bring them again soon into our midst healthy and well. I was like huh??? Either one of two things happened here….. One, either the gentleman didn't listen to the lesson or ….. two, the speaker as others before him are confused with the power and love of God and his movements and are unfortunately promoting this confusion. People you acquire nothing in this world!! God has permitted you the usage of everything you have in your possession!! Is this not physical or do you believe you really acquired it through the sweat of your brow? If he didn't wish you to have these abilities or physical material blessings, trust me friends you would not!! My question to you is this if God is the same then, now, and forever, and all through out the bible he uses physical demonstrations to show his power and abilities so that we all fear yet glorify him why would he stop now? If you don't believe in miracles then why pray? To give gratitude to some thing you really don't believe in, to waste ones breath and time asking out of duty, not expectation? Aren't his answers to your prayers works of a physical nature and the fulfillment of your desires for you, your family, and friends? Ohhh ohhh wait not desires! We are to desire nothing more than the needs in life. Wow, how confused can people be!!