Faith gives us vision. When we are in a season of doubt and unbelief, vision is one of the first things that gets impacted by the fog of circumstances. We begin to see life as a series of dramatic instances that do not make sense. We tend to become negative or argumentative. Sometimes, we get discouraged and lose hope because life does not fit the picture of our expectations. We all have a vision issue to one degree or another.
Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. Acts 2:33
The disciples could not see spiritually for almost fifty days because they were disillusioned with their expectations of Jesus. Everything they had hoped and dreamt, vanished with Jesus’ crucifixion, and they didn’t know what was next for them. While they could see naturally, they could not see or make any sense from Jesus’ situation.
On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit fell upon them, everything came into focus. All those bits and pieces of revelation that Jesus had given them, now became a clear picture of God’s plan of salvation.
The disciples waited through prayer and worship until the Lord showed them what was going on. In those seasons where we don’t see things clearly, we need to patiently wait upon God through prayer and worship. We need the Holy Spirit to help us see again. We need His revelation to take us from discouragement to a place of vision and clarity.
