Seeing 20/20 In 2020
The Eyes of Faith – Seeing 20/20 In The Year 2020
We used to love watching hawks fly around at our old house.
Have you ever seen a hawk up close?
They are truly fascinating birds of prey.
Fascinating, but take it from me, they don’t pick up after themselves.
Seriously.
Once we saw a hawk with a snake in its mouth land directly on our back fence.
We quickly grabbed our binoculars to see what cool thing it would do next.
It didn’t take long.
It dropped the snake in our yard, and then flew off.
Hey, not cool.
You can see one of our frequent hawk visitors in the center of the picture below.
Did you know that hawks can see eight times better than we can? That works out to about a 20/2 on the vision chart.
That’s pretty amazing.
My 20/20 pales in comparison.
I want to always see the world around me through the eyes of faith.
Seeing 20/20 in 2020
The other day, I came across the following verse in my Bible reading, located in 1 Samuel 16:7.
God is with the prophet Samuel in Bethlehem. God had a clear message for what Samuel was to look for in the search for a new king over Israel.
Check this out.
The Lord looks at the heart
He sees us, not just for what we are on the outside, but more importantly, who we are on the inside.
Have you ever noticed in your Bible readings whom God chooses to use for His glory?
Did He always choose the most attractive, richest, strongest, and powerful people?
God often chooses unlikely people to do His work, so that all know the work is God’s work, not man’s work. He wants to work in a way so that people regard His servants as they regarded Samson: they wondered at the secret of his strength. (Judges 16:5). – David Guzik, Christian pastor and author. 2
Don’t you love that?
The Eyes of Faith
Delight yourself in the Lord, take shelter in Him, and see everything going on in the world with a Godly perspective.
Things may appear impossible right now, but through the eyes of faith, we know that, in God’s timing, everything will fall into place.
And then it will all start to make sense.
As hard as it can be sometimes, we have to try and look beyond our circumstances.
Choose to view life through God’s eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective. – Chuck Swindoll, Christian pastor and author.3
Amen!
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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
3 Chuck Swindoll, influential Christian pastor and author. Swindoll quotation, courtesy of AZquotes.com.
