Spiritual vision

When one looks to the Holy Bible to better understand vision, we see that the word “Vision” is used 73 times. But the quotes are not based upon one single component such as seeing a person, flower, or child, etc. No! As we read the passages they reveal how multifaceted vision really is.

As we look partially into the old testament we find the following thoughts and headings concerning some different types of vision:

1.       Gen 15:1 as a promise

2.       Numbers 12:6 as a revelation

3.       Numbers 24:4-8 an oracle

4.       II Samuel 7:17 information of future events

5.       Job 33:15 a teaching tool

6.       Isaiah 1:1 a prophesy

7.       Ezekiel 7:13 a blessing to many

8.       Ezekiel 11:24, 25 a warning

9.       Ezekial 12:24—a vanity or ego

Just to name a few.

In looking at these different types of vision I’m reminded of the parable of the tares and the wheat. In the process of separating the weeds from the wheat so the good kernels could be garnered into the barn and the weed/tares could be bundled and burned. We can see that this process has to be done with what we see and believe about almost anything as well.

What we see and what is spiritually true can be polar opposites.  What God sees and understands about any given thought and action He commands us to express; and what we think, want, and see can be very different. We need to learn how to separate our lacking view points from the way God has created and seen something correctly.

“Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas.”¹
“Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.”²

By looking at things and turning them into thoughts; by learning what we are viewing and how to deal with them spiritually, we are gaining more and more spiritual views. This clearer vision heals because it is the way God is seeing something instead of what we are assuming or believing about any given situation.  

In feeding the multitudes Christ Jesus revealed to all mankind God’s ever-present power and Love. But to further the lesson he asked, “Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?  They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?  And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?”³

We need to wake up and understand that there is a bigger picture of Life and that is God. We need to turn to Him and let Him reveal to us a higher vision of thought and activity. Why? Because we were created to be His ‘witnesses’ and how can we do that if we keep being blinded to the Facts of His omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Being?

Open now our eyes to see,
As the clouds of sense are riven,
We behold reality,
Know the glory of Thy heaven;
So we seek Thy perfect healing
Through the Truth of Thy revealing.”⁴ 85 vs. 2

Gentle Hug


1 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page123 line 14
2 ibid page 269 line 15
3 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Mark 8 vss. 18-21
4 Christian Science Hymnal No. 85 vs. 2