You must be able to say, concerning the truth, “I see it,” before you can speak it so that your hearers also shall see it. No, my brother, before you can make an impression upon another person’s heart, you must have an impression made upon your own soul. The preacher had seen nothing and, therefore, when he described what he saw, of course it all amounted to nothing. It was not because they were not able to comprehend quickly when the truth was set forth plainly before them but I fear that it was, in most cases, because there was nothing that they could learn from the minister to whom they had been accustomed to listen. I often meet with persons who have attended the same ministry for years and when I have a-sked them even very simple questions about the things of God, I have found that they do not know anything. Judging by what they preach, their vision must be all in cloudland, where all they see is smoke, and mist, and fog. The question with which God usually begins his conversation with each of his true servants is the one he addressed to Jeremiah, “What seest thou?” I am afraid that there are some ministers, nowadays, who do not see much. Learn that simple lesson well, O you who try to speak for God! You must be seers before you can be speakers. The name for a prophet, in the olden time, was a “seer”, - a man who could see, one who could see with his mind’s eye, one who could also see with spiritual insight, so as vividly to realize the truth which he had to deliver in the name of the Lord. OBSERVE, first, dear friends, that before Jeremiah becomes a speaker for God, he must be a seer. Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.” - Jeremiah i. The Lesson of the Almond Tree “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
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