Open My Eyes

The new owners have done many repairs to the apartment complex since taking over and after the fumigation is done the paint job on the outside of the building is next. Well, the new windows are going in now and they sure do look nice. They are suppose to help keep out the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter. I will admit this place definitely needed to have new windows installed years ago. At first they were only going to replace the windows that were so messed up that you could not see out of them. No matter how hard you tried you could see nothing through those windows. Then after further thought, the owners decided to go ahead and replace all windows with updated energy efficient windows.

I was looking at the old ugly windows being taken out and the beautiful new windows going in and I thought, WOW! What a difference! First of all in the appearance alone. Even without the paint job the windows make such a difference in the looks of the place from the outside. Then from the inside one can actually look out of the window. CLEARLY! That is how bad a lot of the old windows were. They were double paned windows and I guess somehow moisture got in between the panes and it just messed them up and YUK! You could no longer see through the windows. The new windows are double paned as well but they are supposed to be sealed somehow so that they do not get messed up like the old ones did. They also cut down on more of the outside noise than the old windows. All in all, much better windows.

As I was looking at those windows I thought that is how it is with our spiritual eye sight. We must make sure that we can see clearly. We cannot allow things into our life that will obscure our vision. If we don't keep our spiritual eye sight sharpened and clean so that we can see clearly, then our spiritual vision will become blurred, fuzzy, and hazy. The way we should go will then grow dim and vague and become unclear to us. We will then become so muddled and disorientated that we could find ourselves on a path that we never intended to take.

We need to pray, "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderful things out of thy law." Psalms 119:18

Remember that "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalms 119:105.

There are wonderful things in God's teaching to us. In fact, they are so wonderful that when you really see them, they change you. 2 Corinthians 3:18 reads, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." This is why reading and knowing and meditating on and memorizing the Word of God is so crucial.

If God does not open your eyes, you will not see the wonder of His Word. You will not able to see and understand the spiritual beauty of God's word on our own. You may be able to see the surface of it's meaning, but you can't see the wonder, the beauty, and the glory of it in such a way that it wins your heart.

We cannot see the beauty and the wonder of God without His help. We should ask him to "Open my eyes." When we do this we are allowing Him to come in and illuminate our life and replace our dark, shadowy, murky vision with His wonderful marvelous light.

The apartment complex getting new windows has made a difference inside and out. On the outside the place looks so much better. From the inside one can see out through the windows clearly. The same goes for us when our spiritual vision has been restored. On the outside we will look better because we will shine with the glory of God. From the inside we will see things clearly for we will be looking at things through the mind of Christ. All of the obstacles and debris will have been removed from our vision. Then we can go forward with a clear vision for Christ.