Exercise your Senses.
When God created us, he knew that we would need conscious
awareness, to be able to understand what is going on around us, so He gave us
the five senses.
These are: - See, Hear, Taste, Touch and Smell.
This topic is usually covered in a biology class, but we
shall look at it from the spiritual angle.
Each of these senses are extremely important it their own
right, however, they are reliant upon each other to fulfil their purpose
perfectly. When one of the senses is
impaired, often another one is improved in its function. For example, when someone has hearing
problems, their eyes often become more accurate and acute, being able to sense
by sight, rather than sound, situations around them.
Let us start at the only place possible, to get everything
in its rightful order.
See. “But we
see Jesus.” Hebrews 2:9.
Keep your eyes firmly fixed on Him and you have divine protection.
With our eyes firmly fixed on Jesus,
we can experience Exodus 16:7, “And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory
of the Lord.”
Hear. “Today,
if you will hear His voice.” Hebrews 3:15.
“He that hath an ear let him hear.”
This is repeated 7 times in Revelation 2 & 3.
Taste. “How
sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea sweeter than honey to my mouth.” Psalm 119:103.
“O, taste and see, that the Lord is good, blessed is the man
that trusteth in Him.”
Psalm 34:8.
Touch. Mark
6:56. “And whithersoever He entered,
into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and
besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment:
and as many as touched him were made whole.”
1 Chronicles 16:22 & Psalm 105:15. “Touch not mine anointed.” Yet again, divine protection.
Smell.
Philippians 4:18. “But I have
all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things that
were sent from you, an odour of sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable,
wellpleasing to God.”
Divine protection again is encountered in Job 39:25. “He saith among the trumpets, Ha, Ha; and he
smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.”
Put these senses all together, and they give us full
awareness of all what is going on around us, within the spiritual realm. We need to have our senses exercised in order
to be able to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 5:14.
