April 9th — HAVE I SEEN HIM?
April 9th.HAVE I SEEN HIM?
"After that He appeared in another form unto two of them." Mark 16:12
Being saved and seeing Jesus are not the same thing. Many are partakers of God's grace who have never seen Jesus. When once you have seen Jesus, you can never be the same, other things do not appeal as they used to do.
Always distinguish between what you see Jesus to be, and what He has done for you. If you only know what He has done for you, you have not a big enough God; but if you have had a vision of Jesus as He is, experiences can come and go, you wil endure "as seeing Him Who is invisible." The man blind from his birth did not know Who Jesus was until He appeared and revealed Himself to him. Jesus appears to those for whom He has done something; but we cannot dictate when He wil come. Suddenly at any turn He may come. "Now I see Him!"
Jesus must appear to your friend as wel as to you, no one can see Jesus with your eyes. Severance takes place where one and not the other has seen Jesus. You cannot bring your friend unless God brings him. Have you seen Jesus? Then you wil want others to see Him too. "And they went and told it unto the residue, neither believed they them." You must tel , although they do not believe.
"O could I tel , ye surely would believe it!
O could I only say what I have seen!
How should I tel or how can ye receive it,
How, til He bringeth you where I have been?"