If you know me you know my eyes… I feel like I’m known for my eyes.
People often point out how beautiful my eyes are, which is such a nice compliment. Or I’m known for my eyes because I’m caught squinting and straining to see things close up. I’ve been far sighted since a little girl and now as an older girl my sight has declined even more. It’s an inconvenience and frustrates my independence quite often!
Back at leader training camp we had a worship session where we were invited to lay physical representations of things down on the alter to God. Immediately God brought my glasses to my mind. I felt God asking me to lay down my self dependance by laying my glasses on the alter. Laying aside the way that I’m used to seeing things. In the physical I depend on my glasses in soo many ways. But God was asking me to give my eyes to Him so that He can give me new sight. I was letting go of the way I’m used to viewing the world around me and the people in it. Taking off my biased, tainted worldview glasses so that I can look with fresh eyes at this world and everything in it.
I’ve lived in a seen world, very aware of the tangible, physical, touchable, and visible realities. But God has been constantly bringing up the theme of new eyes to me. Soo many people in the last month have prayed over me that God wants to open my eyes of understanding and my spiritual eyes in new ways.
The unseen world is just as much of a reality as the seen world… just harder to see.
I’ve been praying for dreams and visions. Each night I’ve been giving my thoughts and imaginations and dreams to the Lord. For the past few years I’ve felt like I haven’t really been dreaming, and if I was I certainly wasn’t remembering them. But I want to give those 8 hours of my day to the Lord to be in sweet communion with Him. I have been dreaming more already 🙂
Acts 2:17 In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
I know so little of the spiritual realm but I’m ok with that now. I don’t need to understand it or explain it all. I just believe it’s real. The unseen reality all around me.
My new eyes are walking by faith not by sight. (2Corinthians 5:7)
So much of my life I’ve wanted to see to understand. I’ve looked at my faith, the Bible, and God with a logical mind trying to understand, reason, and study to know more. Logic has its place, but sometimes what we think we know can keep us from what we need to know.
And I will leave you with a quote from The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
“When God spoke out of heaven to our Lord, self-centered man who heard it explained it by natural causes: they said, “it thundered.” This habit of explaining the Voice by appeals to natural law is at the very root of modern science. In the living breathing cosmos there is a mysterious Something, too wonderful, too awful for any mind to understand. The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers “God”. The man of earth kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how things work. We are more likely to explain than to adore.”
