Eyes
of Our Heart
My
husband had been giving me these odd glances all day long. I promised myself
when I wasn’t so busy I’d ask him about it. I had a lot on my heart at the
moment with family and work, but I knew if it was really important he would
just come and say so.
At
dinner that night as I set the food on the table I looked over to see my
husband holding a piece of white paper in front of his face with a beard drawn
on it. What on earth? He slid the paper down and his eyes twinkled as he smiled
mysteriously at me. That’s when I noticed he had shaved off his beard which he
had worn for years!
“When did you do that? Was it this
morning?” I asked about to go on with the meal. But his answer caught me by
surprise when he said, “No dear, two weeks ago!”
“You
love him even though you have never seen him.
Though you do not see him now, you trust him;
and
you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.
The
reward or trusting him will be the salvation of your souls.”
1
Peter 1:8-9
Working
day in and day out with many responsibilities, duties and burdens can dull our
vision for the love Jesus has for us. Stress,
confrontations, personal issues all can cloud our senses and make us to not see
all God wants for us in His Son Jesus.
Jesus told his disciple Thomas, who
came to believe after touching the resurrected Christ, “Blessed are those who believe
without seeing me” (John 20:29).
Let us never allow anything that
tries to blind us, divides us or destroy our oneness with Jesus. There is no
clouding the vision of the heart who trusts in Jesus.
We can depend on God in the midst of
our busy lives to stop us in our tracks and make us to see Him in the sunrise, the
gift of a rainbow, in the unexpected acts of kindness and the love of others when we least expect it.
Though we can’t see Him with our
eyes, it’s His gift of faith to us that we see Him with our heart.
“Eyes
of Our Heart” by Dee Kamp, Grace Every Morning Ministries© February 28, 2014
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