“Open
my eyes, that I may…”
Everyone wants to be able to tell
the important from the trivial
- the things that really matter from
the mundane,
We all want to be insightful, wise,
discerning.
None of us want to be blind to the
important things.
And rightly so.
Yet sadly, our best vision, ability
to see and understand
often involve non-eternal matters.
We can decode the
financial pages of the paper, ingredients of a food product
We can spot a run from
a pass play, or a blitz verses zone coverage
And don't even try to fool
us with a marked up / marked down sale item
Ford / Chevy, Hoover /
Dirt Devil, Mac / what else is there?
Yet, in the things of God - the
truest matters of life -
we are all but blind.
We are truth deprived, wisdom
starved, insight-less.
We are weak in seeing the difference
in
Right from wrong
Good from evil
Truth from lies
Important and eternal
from trivial and temporal
Thus this prayer, and
our desperate need for divine
assistance.
“Open my eyes,
that I may behold wondrous things
out of your law.”
Psalm
119:18 - ESV
Oh Maker of eyes,
help me to see that may see that which is significant.
Give me sight so I can have eternal insight, Your vantage
point.
Move me past knowing to grasping,
Take me away from mere data amassing
to truth testing and trusting.
Prop open my peepers so I may
perceive and pursue Your precepts.
Help me to want that which is
eternal - Your word, truth, Your wisdom.
“Open my eyes,
that I may behold wondrous things
out of your law.”
Psalm
119:18 - ESV
