In the eye of the beholder

Aloha! Haha don't I wish that I was in Hawaii!! Just watched a movie that takes place in Hawaii last night and really wish that I was going there or somewhere tropical to really experience summer, since it certainly has not arrived in BC. Anyhow, this post isn't so much an update on life, but a really eye opening observation I made today (pardon the pun, you'll get it later).

I was just doing my workout in front of the mirror in my living room and stopped when I started staring at the mirror. I was super close and just looking at my eye. It was so cool. My eyes have this light blue color around the outside and then get green towards the pupil. Both of them are very different in shades of color, textures and shapes of the swirling colors. I would squint and look into the light to watch my pupils dilate and enlarge. It was just really neat.

Which really led me to think how great of a creator we have. I mean He designed each little detail that I picked out of my eyes. It's like a painter who takes very careful detail to capture the object of his art. He plays with shades, colors, and patterns. However, the painter takes long hours to create a masterpiece while God took just one day in the beginning. And even now when a baby is developing, the eye is formed in a minimal amount of time. The cells working together with blood and proteins to form this amazing organ.

The eye provides our view of creation and the world. We see our loved ones, nature, dark and light, colors, wrong and right, and everything else that God had destined to be. I know that I have really taken my sight for granted. I see what I want to see. I see concrete, my messy apartment, people I may not like, so much sin, etc. Yet God sees hurt, orphans, poverty, thirst, and desperate hearts for something more. I want to see how God sees. I want my eyes to see the needs of those people I walk past every day. I want to see the hurt that people are going through and have the God given grace and wisdom to talk to them and meet their needs. I just want to see others first and me second. It's all about me, me, me, but I want it to be about God.

So what can I do today to see what God sees? How can I treat people how Jesus would treat them no matter their attitude, age, or race? And how can I make this an everyday thing in my walk with Jesus, not just a passionate pledge once a month?

I just wanted to share this all with you, but perhaps I have challenged you to look closer at something that you have taken for granted in your life. Look closely in a mirror and you too might be amazed at just how awesome your eyes are.

When we see with God's eyes, not just beauty, but true life is in the eye of the beholder.

Later days!