Well, I began the day on Saturday in the Opthamologist's office, because of black cobwebs and blurring of my vision, where we discovered I had a tear in my retina that had to be repaired with laser. In relation to this weekend's worship and spending the day with some discomfort and impaired vision, I got to thinking.
We are singing "open the eyes of my heart, Lord". When we take the time and effort to truly see God we will end up as scripture shows us in Isaiah 6 with some basic revelations. One, we will see who we are; two, we will cry out, "Holy, Holy, Holy"; and three, we will begin to see God's heart and plan and want to be a part of what He is doing. Paul's goal was, "that I may know Him". Chapter 11 of Deuteronomy, from the Youngs Literal Translation, says, "But it is your eyes which are seeing all the great work of Jehovah, which He hath done." Later, it talks about keeping the statutes of the Lord on the door posts so that our children are constantly "seeing" them before them. And then, we are challenged to diligently keep all His commandments, to love Jehovah, walk in all His ways and cleave to Him. Then He says, "'See', I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling, the blessing if you hold to my commands, and reviling if you don't."
Why do we sometimes not see? Or what keeps us from the vision that God would have us have. I am afraid our vision is impaired by the tangled dark webs of our lives and the things we put before Him. Our vision of Him becomes blurred or distorted and therefore we are not sure of His purpose in our lives and His kingdom. May the honest and impassioned plea of our hearts be, "Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, that I may see You" and we will sing, "Holy, Holy, Holy" and will be clear about His mission! mjm
