Open The Eyes of My Heart

Have you ever heard the lyrics "Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see You. I want to see You." ?

Today as I was coming down the stairwell this song popped into my head and it made me ponder -open the eyes of my heart. What exactly does that mean? So I thought it would be something interesting to write about.

There is only so much we can see with our eyes. Our eyes are a terrific gift to have and to see through but what do they show us? They show us color, size, shape, and action. We can see people do nice things and we can see them do mean things. We can see people cry and laugh and show love towards each other but we can see people be rude as well.

So why would we want God to open the eyes of our hearts? Our hearts can feel and see so much more than our eyes ever could. You may have heard before that the Christian walk is about the heart's condition and that God wants our hearts more than anything. The purpose of the heart's condition is that we can be an extreme mess, and we can do things that the eye sees as horrible... that is our flesh and we are going to fail many times again - but when our hearts are being worked on and we are truly trying to change and be better for the Kingdom, what the world sees as horrible, God has grace and mercy upon.... all because of the heart's condition.

God can reveal things to us through our hearts. Because our spirits do not belong to this world, our spirits can feel and see things through the heart whereas our eyes see the things of this world. So to ask God to open the eyes of our hearts is inviting our Creator in to our hearts to clean up the mess and renew us so that we can see things on a spiritual level.

My prayer today is - Lord, please open the eyes of my heart and let me see more of You through a world that is so draining and blinding to my physical eyes. Please help me to feel the hearts of others and to have more mercy towards their failures as you have had so much mercy towards mine. Help me to believe in my unbelief.

Ask God to open the eyes of your heart and be ready to see what He has to show you!

Shine Bright!

April