Isaiah cried out, "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." (Isaiah 6:5 NIV).
Centuries later another man said while holding the Christ child, the King of Kings, "Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation," (Luke 2:32-33 NIV).
The moment our eyes are open to the Lord, with all of His glory, majesty and greatness we will become small in our own eyes. What we have so easily inflated, exalted and magnified in our lives becomes trivial and foolish. John the Baptist said, "He must increase, but I must decrease." (KJV).
Paul writing to the church of Ephesus, "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people," (Ephesians 1:18 NIV).
When was the last time we asked the Lord to give us a deeper understanding of the calling He has placed on our lives? Of an appreciation for the glorious inheritance we possess in Christ?
We need to have a higher vision than what are eyes see in the natural. To see a God who is greater and more powerful than we can ever imagine. Greater than our failures, sins and foolishness. A God who is awesome. A God who is holy and pure and can not look upon sin. A God one day we will see face to face in all of His glory and splendor!
Until our eyes have seen His salvation in our lives, we will fail to believe a God who is greater and higher than the things in our lives that want to consume us.
Open our eyes, Lord! Help us to see You as God not what we want to see!
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