Keen Senses Continued

Previously we looked at the five senses as experienced by God. They are not just human senses, but are possessed by God Himself. Now let’s look at how we humans experience not only physical senses, but spiritual ones. Since my husband has lost his sense of taste, I have wondered if it is possible that our spiritual taste buds can be lost, or at least dulled. If so, we need to pray that God will keep our senses keen.

Sight: Here is a an earnest prayer from the Psalmist: “Open my eyes, that I may see
wondrous things from Your law” (Psalm 119:18, NKJV). It’s possible to gloss over something and not really see the truth. How I pray for keen eyesight.

Sound: Jesus knew that some who pretended to listen didn’t really hear. He explained about the Good Shepherd to His disciples, “The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice” (John 10:4-5, ESV). Are we always alert to hear the right voice?

Smell: Did you know that we have an aroma, not only to God, but to those around us? “Thanks be to God who leads us, wherever we are, on his own triumphant way and makes our knowledge of him spread throughout the world like a lovely perfume! We Christians have the unmistakable ‘scent’ of Christ, discernible alike to those who are being saved and to those who are heading for death. To the latter it seems like the very smell of doom, to the former it has the fresh fragrance of life itself” (II Corinthians 2:14-16, J. B. Phillips).

Taste: Here’s a familiar verse from Psalm 34:8 (NKJV). “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!” Let’s not just take a cautious taste, but savor every bite and find Him delicious!

Touch: The apostle John wrote of what he had witnessed in Jesus when he said, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life” (I John 1:1, NIV). Many actually touched Jesus and were healed. “Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well” (Mark 6:56, NKJV).

Are your senses keen today? Are you experiencing all that God wants for you?

“Listening” from “Singing On”