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"That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they would be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them." Mark 4:12
There is so much in this short verse that we can come to study and ponder different parts of it and gain even more wisdom and knowledge. The thing that stood out to me the most is when I was reading excerpts from the Bhagavad-Gita and it said "veiled in my mystery and power, I am not perceived by most men; their deluded minds cannot see me." Then in another chapter it says "only by single-minded devotion can I be known as I truly am." These two verses made me reflect on this passage I read from Mark and gain so much more from this verse.
We think that if we live our life we will just automatically come to know God without effort or sacrifice. Mark says that we all hear and we all see yet we do not hear nor do we see. From the Gita we see that most men do not perceive him because of a deluded mind cannot see God. But we can see him if we are converted as Mark says by a single-minded devotion to him. We must come to him, its not that Christ will come unto us for he is already near us waiting for us to do our part to come to him so that we may know and understand him. As we change our lives, becoming converted by changing our hearts we will come to know him as he truly is. As we change our hearts and lives we will become new creatures in God putting off the natural man and as we change he will forgive us of the things we have done wrong.
God is always near to us, He Lives and is real but we do not know nor understand because we are so distracted and far from hearing that we cannot truly see him. Miracles are around us each and every day and we are blessed with them in our daily life but we do not see for we are not single-minded to God. Its through God that we see things as they truly are, the beauty and truth comes from Him.
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