Friday 12 October, 2007              subscribe | unsubscribe | respond | prayer | archive

 

Doing a mental

by Elizabeth Price

 

I’m not good at mental gymnastics so it is confusing to be told I am to ‘fix my eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.’

 

My sight is precious and the things I look at are precious.  So if I have eyes, they are for the visible.

 

An interior decorator spoke with me once about looking for colour in the perfect balance of creation.

 

So I fix my eyes on the visible – the running creek, the granite rocks, and always - the flowers.

 

Jesus was the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley.  Then He said of Himself, I am the vine, the water, and the rock.

 

Maybe that is what He meant, look at my creation long enough and you will look past the visible to the invisible. You won’t see it, you’ll see Me!

 

So now, what was Paul saying about fixing my eyes on what is unseen?  He said

 

“We fix our eyes not on what is seen,

but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary

but what is not seen is eternal.”

2 Corinthians 4:18

 

Will you help me to do a mental on my eyes?

 

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