{"id":5398,"date":"2026-06-17T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:48:42","slug":"i-have-heard-of-thee-by-the-hearing-of-the-ear-but-now-mine-eye-seeth-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/june\/i-have-heard-of-thee-by-the-hearing-of-the-ear-but-now-mine-eye-seeth-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee."},"content":{"rendered":"
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He knows our thoughts:<\/h3>\n

No thought can escape from God. The Psalmist said that God discerns our thoughts. He knows when we sit and when we are out and about (Ps 139:1-2). John tells us that God is greater than our hearts. If our thoughts condemn, He will justify us (1 Jn 3:20). Job came to that conclusion after he had lost everything he held dear. Job’s losses made him realize that his relationship with God was one of knowledge; it was not out of personal experience. It was out of hearsay that Job knew the things of God. He said, “I have heard of thee by hearing of the ear.”<\/em> His ancestors taught Job about God. Job’s faith was based on what he had heard from his elders, as faith comes from hearing (Ro 10:17). The things of God are beautiful. The Psalmist marveled at the beauty and wonders of God (Ps 139:14). His personal experience did not come after he lost his kids, his possessions, his friends, his wife, or when his health deteriorated, but when he recognized the kind of relationship he had with God. <\/p>\n

Job 42:2-6<\/p>\n

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2 <\/sup>I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. <\/span>3 <\/sup>Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore, have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.<\/span><\/p>\n

4 <\/sup>Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. <\/span>5 <\/sup>I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. <\/span>6 <\/sup>Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“But now mine eyes seeth thee,” <\/em>said Job. One thing is to have hearsay knowledge about God, and another is to have firsthand experience with him. It took a series of events for this man to know God eventually. Jesus told Nicodemus that before a man could see the kingdom of God, they would need to be born again (Jn 3:3). Habbakkuk, after he prayed for revival, saw the Lord in glory. The prophet was worried about God’s work dying down, so he prayed that God would revive it. The Psalmist confessed in his prayer to God that if he would walk in trouble, he would revive him (Ps 138:7). He described, like Job, that he too had heard about God, but now he saw the glory of God. He said that God’s glory covered the earth, and it was filled with his praises (Hb 3:2-4). <\/p>\n

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139 <\/span>O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. <\/span>2 <\/sup>Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1 John 3:20<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

20 <\/sup>For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.<\/p>\n

Romans 10:17<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

17 <\/sup>So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.<\/p>\n

Psalms 139:14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

14 <\/sup>I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.<\/p>\n

John 3:3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3 <\/sup>Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

Psalms 138:7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

7 <\/sup>Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.<\/p>\n

Habakkuk 3:2-4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2 <\/sup>O Lord<\/span>, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord<\/span>, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. <\/span>3 <\/sup>God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. <\/span>4 <\/sup>And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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