Psalm 27
David begins this Psalm with calling God both his light and his salvation. In other words God is both the way that we see and the way we are saved.
The way we see:
Many times throughout the Gospels and Revelation Jesus calls to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see. I think this is because at base we have a listening issue and a vision issue. What God does is open our eyes and allows us to see ourselves for who we are and to see the world for what it is. Along with sight God also gives us insight into what we need to change and how we need to journey along our path. Martin Luther King Jr said "Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase." We can only have that faith when we believe that there is a staircase there in the first place, and that vision comes to us directly from God
The way we are saved:
I am not the biggest fan of calling people who do not yet follow God lost, but to some degree we all are lost at some point in our lives. The problem is that we in the church often have a very narrow view of salvation. We talk about being saved 'from' a great deal, but we often leave out being saved 'for'. God saves us from a great many things, but God also saves us for a purpose, for a work to be done in this world. We are saved from pain and guilt and anger and fear, but we are also saved to love God and ourselves and our neighbors, to work to bring a little bit of heaven to the here and now.
Through both the sight and the saving we are made more than we could have ever been without God in our lives.
+ In what ways has God helped you to see?
+ In what ways has God saved you from and saved you for?
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