Andrew's Eyes

I was talking to Andrew; he’s one of the sixth graders we look up to.  He just got new contacts.  For those of you who don’t know, contacts are like glasses; they help you see.  The difference is you can’t see them from the outside, cuz’ they lay flat against Andrew’s eyeballs.  

Sometimes it takes a person a while to get used to their contacts.  Their eyes can be red and watery, until the feeling of a small piece of plastic lying on their eye becomes normal.  Not Andrew; he’s already got the routine down.

When I got to thinkin’, I remembered a verse about seeing like God.  Paul was praying for the Ephesian church when he said, “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe.  That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead… (Ephesians 1:18-20)”

He used the words, “the eyes of your heart.”  These are eyes that other people cannot see on the outside, but that we use to understand what our God is saying to us.  Paul said that the eyes of our heart could be “enlightened.”     Our “heart eyes” need to be called from sleep into alertness!  Notice the things God can make us understand: His hope, our inheritance and His power at work in us!

How does this happen?  When we ask Jesus to come to live in our hearts by His Holy Spirit, He makes us awake to God’s thoughts.  We actually begin to see with His eyes!  No, we don’t see with red, scratchy eyes or with watery eyes, but we are able to understand the things God is saying with His very clear eyes.

Let’s ask Him to help us with that today:  Dear Jesus help us in this day to see the way You see.  Help us to notice the sad or lonely person.  Help us to understand chapel and Bible lessons the way You do.  And Help us to listen to Your instructions about how You  want us to act toward others all day.  In Your name, Amen.

Proud of you,
Pastor Wilson