Life is in the Eye of the Beholder… Who’s in Your Eyes?

1 Peter 1:8 and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

Seeing is believing, right? It is wonderful to have eyes that are able to see, not everyone has the ability. If seeing is believing, how do these people “see”? Or what about those “things” that are invisible to the eye?

But maybe we’re using the “wrong eyes” to see or maybe we are unaware of “ALL of the eyes we humans possess.

There are the eyes of our earthly bodies… not everything is SEEN or CAN BE SEEN when looking at the images before our eyes, such as gravity or the future images that have not happened yet. Every action has a reaction, the prediction of the reaction cannot always be calculated before the action takes place. So seeing with our fleshly eyes, may not provide everything needed for the function of seeing. We have to add what I call the eyes of our heart and soul.

Though animals see things and INSTINCTIVELY (meaning a reaction totally within the confines of their nature) react, humans filter life through our “will” – the decision to act and the freedom deciding holds, to “choose” the action.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Some consider humans as equal with animals and animals equal to humans. The TRUTH is, there is no fish, no bird, no beef, nor creepy thing that comes close to the ability and potential to rule, than a human being. We were made in the image of God and given the freedom to choose to be like Him (Not to be Him!) but to be recognized as bearing His image.

If you “bear” an image, it means you hold it in honor and respect. It means you are pleased and proud “look like” the original… though you have not seen Him, you love Him. You LOVE the one you look like!

If you love the one you look like, though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him, beyond any shadow of doubt that might enter your thoughts. You BELIEVE in the one you love!

As a human being, made in the image of God, we have the freedom to choose whom we wish to love and whom we believe our life is best centered around… choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: (Joshua 24:15) We see, through the eyes of the flesh, we choose through the eyes of our heart and soul.

Humans do not just accept and instinctively react to what is seen, we seek that which will we believe will give us the best outcome for what we desire. When we view something we cannot, or will not accept, or do not like, or just plain do not see clearly, we take on the task of “perceiving” (auditing – defining – assessing – chasing to fit) what our eyes have presented.

We seek the “best truth” life provides, so to speak

Unfortunately, there are those who believe that truth is a matter of perception/preference, not fact. Reality is strictly what the person perceives/prefers as real.

Which, would be true, IF, the nature of the person couldn’t and wouldn’t lie to themselves or others.

When we made our position of choice, to question and disobey THE PERFECT and RIGHTEOUS, we stepped away from the innocence we enjoyed in living and ruling over creation. Rather than declaring our SIN, we tried (and still do today) to cover our nakedness – our imperfect and unrighteous nature.

We “perceived” we had to HIDE when God called us out. We preferred to blame everyone but ourselves.

I have stated before and I will continue to say as we both shall live, “Perception/Preference IS NOT reality!” It IS (almost always) NOT truth!

An eyewitness account is almost always what the person THOUGHT or WISHED they’d seen. The eyes of the heart and soul must seek a solution when the eyes of the flesh cannot comprehend what they are seeing, or the mind cannot accept the explanation of the images coming into it. The eyes of our heart and soul must call in all its resources to explain and/or approve so that we may continue to live the life we have established as OUR LIFE.

If not… war will be declared and our inner self will be enraged until we can declare victory – never defeat!

While our fleshly eyes seek information, the eyes of our heart and soul seek PROOF that our life is as it SHOULD BE… what it USED TO BE, before we broke it by giving evil a position in our world. The eyes of our heart and soul are always seeking to conquer the territory and the King who rules it, so we can return to heaven.

The TRUTH is God was always the one and only King, is the one and only King, and will always be the one and only King! He wasn’t, nor isn’t, nor ever will be defeated. That which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made –  Romans 1:19-20 Like I said, “Seeing is not always believing.”

Whether with the eyes of the flesh or the eyes of the heart and soul, we need one more set of eyes… the eyes of Jesus.

Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6 

Reality, whether one believes it or not, remains REALITY.

Truth, whether believed or not, remains THE TRUTH.

The only way to see clearly is to see through God’s eyes.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 1 John 4:15-17

I love Him because He first loved me (1 John 4:19).

“My Eyes Have It!”

From eyes of my flesh to the depth of the eyes of my heart and soul… though I have not seen Him, I love Him, and though I do not see Him now, but believe in Him, I greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

Who’s in your eyes today?

**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.