I love the glimpses of God’s glory and beauty that He at times blesses us with. I just love when He, as
Brandon Heath’s song asks of, gives me His eyes so I can see. I mean it is literally all inspiring when the glasses of His goodness are put on my eyes so that I am no longer stuck in the blurred confusion of this world, but see in the clarity of His will at work. I wish I kept these glasses on so I could see the world like that all the time. I mean that isn’t even a good analogy, the Bible really says it best, I was blind, but now I see (John 9:25)!! Life without Him isn’t just blurred, it’s completely dark!
This desire to see reminded me of this Bollywood movie I saw with my mom. In the movie there is this
great boxer who is so good that he can win even with a blind fold on, and this girl who dreams of making it out of her poor home in India by becoming a famous dancer, but gets hit by a car and becomes blind. This boxer, not wanting the girl to lose her dream, offers to teach her how to see without her eyes. She agrees, and so he takes her to this place where they come to this pool of water, and while they are splashing water on their faces he shoves her head under the water as if to drown her. He finally lets her up and she is grasping for breath and freaking out because she thinks he just tried to kill her. He then responds, saying, “Lesson number one, never forget those thirty seconds under the water where the only thing you wanted was air. If you want to see as much as you want to breathe, than nothing can stop you, you will be so possessed that you will be unstoppable.” What if we took on this challenge? What if we fought to see God’s will and though His eyes as much as we fight to breathe? What if His vision was our greatest desire? I mean this would mean that above all else we would seek to see the world as He sees it, and to see His will in our life as well as in those around us. This would mean that when we offered up the words, “Your will be done” they wouldn’t just be a request of please let me be okay with Your will, or please make it so that Your will is (insert whatever your request is), but rather what you genuinely wanted. What if you sought to have your will come align with His will? Maybe then we would become so possessed with Him that we truly would be unstoppable. Jesus sought to see His father’s will, He desired this above all else, including His life (which includes breathing!!) and as we now know, He was unstoppable. Even death couldn’t conquer Him! Let’s follow His example. Let’s pray that God would heal our blindness, give us His sight, and then let’s fight to keep this sight until we are so possessed with Him, that nothing of this world can stop us! Let us no longer stumble around this world, but proclaim the glory of how we were once blind but we now see!!

Give me your eyes for just one second

Give me your eyes so I can see

Everything that I keep missing

Give me your love for humanity

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

Ones that are far beyond my reach.

Give me your heart for the ones forgotten

Give me your eyes so I can see