“Open my eyes, that I may…”

 

“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