Could I possibly be so busy IN the Lord’s work that I fail to see the Lord AT work around me?  Like the men who unknowingly carried on a conversation with the resurrected Jesus on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35), could I go about my daily affairs oblivious to God at work right beside me?  Unfortunately, such is a distinct possibility and for many, a sad reality.

We can get easily so caught up in our physical existence that we fail to see things happening in the spiritual realm.  To “walk in the Spirit” as Paul instructs (Galatians 5:16, 25) is in great part to live in such a way that we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit resident within us, guiding us and revealing Christ as work around us.  We cannot heal our own spiritual blindness, but we can ask God to help us see through the lens of the Holy Spirit, to learn to be acutely aware of what is happening around us spiritually.

There is so much more to see than what we see on the surface.  Here is one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite preachers:

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. – Tony Evans

May we by God’s grace and through the power of His Holy Spirit learn to walk in the Spirit so that we see Him at work around us always. May we see beyond the superficial physical events of our day.  The reality of the resurrection is not good for only one day of celebration a year, but for every day of our lives.  May we come to the same result as those men on the road to Emmaus:

And their eyes were opened, and they recognized Him. – Luke 24:31a