The Holy Spirit this morning emphasized to me why we need to look to Him for insight and understanding in life and not rely on our own understanding which is limited. Proverbs.3:5 & 6 says Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

The key phrase in this passage is lean not or trust not your own version of the event, but acknowledge that the Lord has a broader view of things that you are unable to see into which shows a completely different viewpoint from your limited scope.

Well today the Holy Spirit wants you to see from the revealed word the viewpoint of the Lord as revealed from the book of Revelation of how God sees and looks at things versus our limitation in sight. You will understand clearly the advantage of God’s sight once you see the truth from this scripture in the book of Revelation.

Jesus always said let him that has eyes to see let him see and he that has ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying which always goes beyond our natural eyes and ears because we all have them to view things in the natural realm.

In Revelation.4:6 it reads Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. Now look at the living creatures and their characteristics: full of eyes plural in front and behind.

They see ahead to lead and guide the way forward but also see behind to cover every possible incident or attack that could be launched from behind while moving forward, all at the same time. We on the other hand can only visualize what we focus on whether ahead or behind at a given point.

We are unable to cover both angles. A very limited scope of view and that is why we cannot lean on our own viewpoint. We desperately need the advantage of the Holy Spirit helping us.

However there is still more to the scope the Lord sees from which I am going to share now. In Revelation.4:8a it says The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. Again the four living creatures were full of eyes this time around and within pointing out they are seeing into everything with multiple eyes all around every situation and within the situation, so no part of anything is missing from their sight.

They have absolutely no blind side which is what we as humans have which hinders and hampers us because we could not see into that area but have to make presumptions on what lay in there. The Lord makes no presumption on facts. He knows the full picture and that’s why we need His input on all things no matter how promising they look from the natural to make the right choice.

When the Holy Spirit first introduced these scriptures to me from Revelation my ability to see things expanded to such a degree that I was seeing things happening in Nations so much so that I was privy to the conversations going on in the President’s house. I had answers to the issues they were facing and the Lord had me pray out the solutions in both Sierra Leone and Botswana.

That is why God says in Jeremiah.29:10 I know the thoughts I think towards you, thoughts of good not evil to give you a hope, a future and an expected end. There is a way that looks/seems right to man or in our sight but the end is destruction. The difference is vast so we need to trust the Holy Spirit all the more.

We do not see the full picture and can therefore be easily deceived and that is why we cannot lean on our own understanding but should trust and rely on the insight of the Holy Spirit.

I remember clearly the day the Holy Spirit revealed this truth to me from the book of Revelation and said this same man John receiving this truth used to lean on the bosom of Jesus. Just imagine he himself is stunned to the point of falling to the ground as a dead man seeing his resurrected Master in His glory. John needed His Master Jesus to pick him up to understand this new realm of glory.

From that day I knew that anything I needed to know in the Spirit, I would receive as I sought the Lord to have the insight of the Holy Spirit. This meant I stopped coming short because of my lack of full insight and I made up my mind to trust the Holy Spirit and His analysis of every situation rather than what it looked like to me.

The Holy Spirit has never been wrong because He sees the complete picture and I choose to believe Him more than my study and knowledge which are limited.

Now the book of Revelation is an unveiling of Jesus and who He is from where He now is seated in glory. Not of who Jesus was on earth in His limitation of a human body. Even John who had experienced Jesus in the earthly realm, when he gets to see Jesus in His brand new revealed state and His position of glory.

John has to adapt and change from his limited perspective of the Jesus he knew and has to embrace the reality of who Jesus glorified is. As he is given permission to see Jesus in His present glorified status. John is startled at who Jesus is in heaven and the Might, splendor, majesty and glory that exudes in Him compared to his experience of Jesus on earth.

I have learnt from experience that each time I spend in the book of Revelation my spiritual eyes open up to new facets of who Jesus is and the greater scope of His authority which makes me more capable to overcome and win more triumphs in situations. This is because I received greater truth revealed to me which Jesus pointed out the Holy Spirit would lead us into: so that we might be free and walk in the power and authority of Jesus.

Today having received these words may the grace to see further and deeper from the Lord’s perspective become your portion and may you become clearer in understanding the will of the Lord for your life and walking in the path He set for you rather than paths you think or have imagined which only bring failure.

I pray today that the inner parts of your heart will open up to insight from the Lord that gives you the whole picture of things rather than little snippets that encourage pride of knowledge which then rob you of God results because you are living on presumption rather than real faith and truth which bring freedom.

Have a wonderful day of exploration and discovery of why you have missed out on so much because you did not see the full picture and watch how the Holy Spirit brings you out and leads you on now forward in victory with full clarity in Jesus’ name. Amen.