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Seeing What Jesus Sees by Seeing Jesus More Clearly

  “The Lord doesn’t look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1Sam.16:7).

 

Lord Jesus, no matter if we have 20/15 vision or Lasik perfected night vision, if we only observe the outward appearance of people, places, and pain, we’re not seeing as you intend.

   Help us see people with Gospel-eyes. Our heart-cataracts lead to unfair caricatures, and they blur the image of God in everyone. Replace our quick reads with long compassion. Everyone has a dignity worth honoring. Everyone has a story we’ve yet to hear.

Help us see creation with Gospel-eyes. Jesus don’t let us miss your glory in sunrises and sunsets, flora and fauna, our beloved pets and the changing seasons. Grace-tune our senses to see your fingerprints in creation, and also to catch the aroma of the emerging new heaven and new earth (Rev. 21:1-5).

Help us see pain with Gospel-eyes. Some things can only be seen accurately though the lens of your suffering and our tears. The misery and mystery of our heartaches and body aches are to be stewarded, not despised or weaponized.

Jesus, help us see our remaining days with Gospel-eyes. May the calendar of sovereign grace shape what we do with our time, energy, and every treasure you’ve entrusted to us. May “faith expressing itself in love” (Gal.5:6) supplant fear expressing itself in worry, resentment expressing itself in blaming, and comparing expressing itself in discontent.

Above all, help us see you as you truly are, Jesus. It’s fair to assume, in our unglorified state, we’ve only seen about .07% of your truth, goodness, and beauty. Show us more—however much we can handle before heaven. So Very Amen.

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