Gimme Your Eyes

There’s a catchy little tune from Christian singer Brandon Heath that I really like. It’s called “Give Me Your Eyes.” Here’s what the chorus says: Give me Your eyes for just one second Give me Your eyes so I can see Everything that I keep missing Give me Your love for humanity Give me Your arms for the broken hearted The ones that are far beyond my reach? Give me Your heart for the one's forgotten Give me Your eyes so I can see I had not heard the song in months, and the song came flooding back into my mind just this past Monday. Have you ever just experienced a day of happening that you just knew were directly from God? It’s as if He has set up some divine appointments just for you because He is trying to tell you something or lead you somewhere? That was my Monday. On my way to make a hospital visit, I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in months. We talked right outside that hospital with tears flowing about how God had worked in and through a house fire they had where they lost everything. How GOD had worked. My heart was so blessed to hear that. After making that hospital visit, I decided I could use some caffeine and went into Starbucks in Crestview Hills. There I ran into an old friend who is a retired educator and administrator. I asked him how he was enjoying retirement. Turns out he has been doing mission trips to Egypt and India. I sat enthralled with his stories of sleeping in the slum of India and doing ministry in the garbage towns of Egypt. I was amazed at literal miracles that he experienced while there. Yet I also was amazed at how broken our world is. While we sit in the comfort of our homes, there are people in the far reaches of this world building a dung house to provide some semblance of shelter in their town or village. While we take our kids back to school shopping here in suburban Northern Kentucky, there are little children being given to pedophiles in India as a gift from a pedophile god (notice the little “g”). While we celebrate the birth of a new baby in our family, a ministry in India has set up a private dropbox for mom’s to place their newborn babies in as an option to just killing that baby in order to escape financial and societal consequences. Acts 26:17-18 says, “I will rescue you from your own people and the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.” This passage challenges those who know the light of Christ to go and tell others who are in the darkness, so that they can experience the awesome, life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. So many nations and people groups are still in that darkness. We need to go to them and proclaim Christ. However, WE, TOO, need our eyes opened. We are often shackled by the tunnel vision that is our own little world. God opened my eyes like never before on Monday to His amazing work in places I have no clue about. He opened my eyes to the brokenness from my community to the continents that so desperately needs Christ’s help. I hope my eyes never shut again. Lord, gimme your eyes. Help me and everyone to see all things through your eyes so that we can know your awesome work around us, and so that we can know the desperate need that exists as well. And then, let us be your hands, feet, hugs, smile, and help from our community to the continents, shining your light in the darkness, so that eyes will be opened to see our awesome Savior Jesus Christ!