Alchemy of Sight

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When the environment gets heavy…so many people with so much hurt…when the veil is peeled back and I am unavoidably aware of the trouble and heart-ache this side of heaven affords us…

I feel I have to re-focus on eternal.  That is where I find hope.  I need to see past what is in front of me, what I see in black and white, in flesh and blood.  Sharpen my spiritual eyesight and hearing.  Examining through that God-cleaned lens external evidence in circumstance that would tear at my hope—at my confidence that He is good.  He sees, He loves, He cares, He does.

Alchemy.  Its definition:  any "magical" (a.k.a.  Divine) power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.  I bend in to see and hear differently; transmuting despair into hope and blessing.

1 Corinthians 15: 50-57 (Amplified Bible)


53 For this perishable part of us must put on the imperishable nature, and this mortal part of us, this nature that is capable of dying, must put on immortality—freedom from death.


54 And when this perishable part puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the Scripture that says, Death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory.

55 Oh death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?
56 Now sin and infirmity fallen from the Garden is the sting of death, and sin exercises its power upon the soul through the abuse of the Law.

57But thanks be to God, Who give us the victor to overcome—making us conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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