My son knows my answer very well by now whenever he is looking for something.
“Where’s the maple syrup?”
“Use your……”
“Eyes mom,” he smiled.
Having breakfasts together always before going to school, I love making breakfasts for both of us [my hubby leaves early for work]. I would make him omelet, pancakes, sometimes as plain as scrambled eggs with toasts.
“Where’s the ketchup mom?”
“Use your….”
“Eyes!” he replied.
“Not your…”
“Mouth…”he shyly uttered.
The other day, when my husband was making the stuffed fish, he asked, “Where’s the onion?”
“Use your…”
“Eyes,” my son answered loudly to make his daddy hear it and both giggled.
But in our spiritual state, we don’t see God through our eyes. We see God through our hearts. It is also through our hearts that the Lord sees. God doesn’t look at us the way we look at each other. We look at appearances but they don’t reveal what is inside of us. They don’t show what our true inner values are.
God alone sees the conditions of our hearts. He has been reaching out to us through the doors of our hearts for so long.
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” – Revelation 3:20 [NIV]
We are all always looking for something. But we are looking at the wrong places, finding the wrong things that fulfill what we want, what we need. Drugs… Fancy cars… Money…Lust and sexual immorality… Jesus words are simple…If anyone admits him in his heart, he receives Him as a friend.
"And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love." - Ephesians 3:17 [LAB]
"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13 [NIV]
May the eyes of our hearts be opened wide this year for Him. Happy New Year to all of you and may God bless you...
