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THAT THOU MAYEST SEE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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“THAT THOU MAYEST SEE”

By E. K. Slade

E. K. SLADE
(Ann Arbor, Mich.)
In this time of uncertainty, darkness, and deception, when, if possible, the “very elect” will be deceived, God’s people are to see. “Seeing” and “knowing” must, of necessity, enter more and more into the Christian’s experience, as the darkness and deceptiveness of Satan increase to mystify the way.
To “be vigilant,” because of him who deceives to destroy and devour, must be to see with better than human vision, and know better than with human understanding. Past experiences are sufficient to teach us that human vision is not adequate to guide, with safety, in a time of so great darkness and peril. A blind people in a dark world would be in a deplorable condition, yet that is the condition of all whose eyes are not anointed. They can not even see the darkness because of the blindness, much less the hidden snares and pitfalls of Satan.
How fitting it is that the prayer of faith should ascend from God’s people everywhere, at this time of all times, that all may receive the anointing of the Spirit, the heaven-prepared “eyesalve,” that they may see. Not one step can be taken safely, in this time, without divine guidance.
The enemy of all good will seek to divert and deceive and defeat in every advance move in the cause of God. But the promise, “The Lord shall guide thee continually,” will defeat the devil, and bring triumph to the cause of truth, if we will make it our own, and experience its fulfillment. Otherwise, moves will be made and plans will be laid in which God will have no part.
“It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” So inadequate is the human vision to see aright and to guide safely, that the all-knowing and all-seeing One has promised, “I will guide thee with, mine eye.” The anointing with the “eyesalve” is followed by seeing with the eye of God, even that eye before which “all things are naked and open.” The Spirit which “searcheth all things” is the means of anointing.
When the eyes of the child of God are anointed with the Holy Ghost, then will it be true, as assured in the promise, “Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.” No bird will be caught in that which he sees to be a snare or net. The one who has for his guide the “eyes of the Lord” that “are in every place, beholding the evil and the good,” will be able to detect the hidden evil and the deceptive snare, and to know the way in which he should go. “Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,” may be the experience of all who are guided by the eye of God.
The assemblages of God’s people, where important issues are pending and momentous moves are to be made, are where Satan, with all his arts and powers and confederations of evil, makes his mightiest endeavors to thwart the purpose of God. It is at such assemblages, also, that God is willing and waiting to manifest himself mightily by the gift of His guiding Spirit. Surely, the prayer of faith, ascending from every home and hearth of the remnant of Israel, will be heard of God, and triumphantly will He lead His people.