I’ve been meaning to talk about this for some time now, but it seems good in the Lord to mention it here in this piece at Apprising Ministries to encourage your study of the Bible. For those who are being observant God will often do something that will only be noticed by a certain individual.

By this I mean that, as your Father and Creator, He knows what desires He has placed within your heart; the secret things that are just between you and your Lord. As you go through your day God occasionally shows you things or leads you to places that He knows will bring you joy and happiness. One of the women at my church refers to them as “little pearls” from the Lord.

And not only does God do this in the natural world as you go through your day, the Spirit will also do this as you read the Scriptures He inspired. You will probably have heard people refer to the Bible as His-story, because Holy Scripture was given to us as a testimony that our great God and Savior—Christ Jesus of Nazareth—would be coming into our world.

As such, for example, as you read the Old Testament you will often find some of these “little pearls” where the Spirit will suddenly show you things Jesus would later do and teach as a testimony to God’s mercy and greatness.

Here’s one instance. We begin in the New Testament with Peter’s account of our Lord calming a storm one day. Mark recalls Peter telling him about how the Master’s disciples decided to get away to the other side of the Lake of Galilee so as they left:

the crowd behind, they took Him along, just as He was, in the boat. There were also other boats with Him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, don’t You care if we drown?”

He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to His disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey Him!” (Mark 4:36-41)

May You Open Our Eyes Lord

Now let’s suppose these disciples, who would have read Psalm 107 many times in their lives, had recalled this “little pearl” from verses 26-29:

in their peril their courage melted away. They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their wits’ end. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.

You see there; they actually had nothing to worry about because God had already told them ahead of time that their Lord would take care of them. Although they appear to have forgotten it, in truth they were in the Father’s hands all the time. And this is but one example of the many little pearls which you will discover when you carefully meditate—in the proper sense of that term—on the Scriptures as you read the Old Testament.

If you ask the Spirit to open your eyes, time after time, you will begin to notice things in His Scriptures about Christ Jesus that have simply been there all the time. And the Master does tell us — “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give to you who are in the Kingdom.”

Now here’s a little something else for you to meditate on. Just stop and think about what “little pearls” are in the New Testament right now that we aren’t seeing. Our unwillingness to completely surrender to the indwelling Holy Spirit is the main reason why God isn’t able to do more for the Church of Jesus Christ in this generation.

But O might we today begin to follow our Lord’s advice in Ephesians 6:18 to — pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. This admonition is then repeated in Jude – But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit (v.20).

The above pray in the Holy Spirit means for those of us who are slaves to Christ to pray in line with God’s will. And as we begin to we wonder; what kind of harvest for the Father will our Lord Jesus have by the Spirit if we as the beloved children of God pray like the psalmist: “Lord, please open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your Scripture.”