How to Learn to See

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 23, 1908

How to Learn to See.

ONE who puts seeing before believing in his spiritual life will never see much that is worth believing. And what he does see will not affect his beliefs. His sight is already controlled, if not destroyed, by his unbelief. Only when he realizes that he has got the cart before the horse is there any hope of his seeing the invisible. There is no truth in the old assertion that "seeing is believing," when it comes to matters of eternal life and death. "Believing is the secret of seeing," writes Henry F. Cope. Jesus was ready to let Thomas see the demanded evidence of the resurrection, because Jesus knew that Thomas had long been a believer in Him. Because of the belief which was already there, the sight for which Thomas asked was granted, and was convincing. But there is no record of Jesus' having gone, after His resurrection, to Annas, or Caiaphas, or Pilate, or any others who had refused to believe in Him, in order to convince them of His resurrection and Messiahship. They must believe in Christ before they could see the truth that He was ready to show them. When a man has come as a little child in trusting surrender to the Saviour, then he will begin to see wonderful things. Until he believes, he has no right to expect the sight which can only follow belief.—Sunday School Times.