Give Me Your Eyes  Brandon Heath

2 Corinthians 4:18 “We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

What We See

Today, 2021 A.D., we are not much different than those who were living in the Bible days.  Daily we tend to look at the world as if “what we see is what we get.” Temporal living is not how God wants us to see this world.

He has prepared an eternal home and eternity began the very moment you and I were conceived in our mothers’ womb.  

We are destined to live eternally. God has blessed His creation with something else also; we have been given the gift of free choice! We can choose to live eternally in heaven where we have a prepared home with Jesus or we can choose to live in hell alone in terrible suffering.   Two worlds both eternal. How you choose to live determines where you will be after this life ends.  Jesus is my choice! I hope you have accepted Him as your Savior and Lord. When you truly believe in Him, you will want to live daily with Him and for Him.  

Faith and Fire

In Priscilla Shirer’s book, Elijah Faith and Fire, we studied this week about having a correct view of things happening around us.  Elijah was sent by God to Zarephath to live with a widow there.  When he arrived at the city gates, he had no way to know who the widow would be.  What he saw were people walking around trying to survive this awful drought that had gone on for one and half years with no relief in sight.  Emaciated people, no way to grow crops, hungry, miserable, hopeless was the picture we get if we read the story and place ourselves in the picture.  After he saw the widow, she was sad, lonely, and depressed. She had no one to care for her and her son.  

As she was going!

Elijah speaks to her to ask for a drink of water. “As she was going” to try to find water for this Jewish prophet, he then asks for a piece of bread! She saw his need and was on her way!  Even when she was trying to go about collecting sticks to build a fire for her last meal, she stopped to go find water, during a drought, for someone she did not know!  Kindness even in the darkest moments of her life!  How would you have reacted?

Jew or Gentile?

Both the widow and Elijah saw the temporal view of life.  Our need to survive is how God made our bodies.  But, there is another way to see this life and our world!  A view of God’s plan for redeeming the world.  You see, the widow was different from Elijah!  He was a Jew, she was a Gentile!

There had been no love between the two races!  Their differences were many.  But both were used by God to give us a picture of how God wants us to live.  Our lives are to be lived not by what we see in those who are different from us.  We are to see each other with an eternal view.  One day, as Christians, we will be together in heaven.   There will be no color involved.  No poor versus rich.  No slave or free.

Galatians 3:26-28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male for female; for you (we) are all one in Christ Jesus.”

What God Sees

What we see is only temporal. Look deeper, see what God has said in His Word.  There is more to this world than what our eyes can see.  Read His Word and find out what more God is offering those who will love seeing the world through His eyes.  

There is so much more here than what we see!  God’s Word reveals those things for which we must search and find.

In Christ’s love

Freda Reynolds