Good Morning All!!
Psalm 33:13; “The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;”
The
other day, I asked my wife if she knew where my battery charger was. I looked in the shop, I looked in the garage,
I looked in the basement; I couldn’t find it anywhere. I did this three times and couldn’t find it
anywhere. I thought back to last using
it. We used it trying to get our lawn
mower running but it wasn’t in the shop.
I let one of the member’s use it when their car wouldn’t start after
church but it wasn’t in the garage and that was before the lawn mower so that
didn’t matter. Maybe one of my sons
borrowed it. That was a possibility but
I couldn’t recall either of the likely suspects having asked. I was stumped.
The next day, my wife came in to my office
mumbling something about “man eyes.” “It
was right where it was supposed to be, you just put the chainsaw on it.” “You must have walked by it five times.” “Man eyes?” what on earth are those? Whenever I do those eye tests on Facebook I
can see the hidden elephant and I can pick out which square is a different
color; so what are “man eyes”?
Apparently my wife, and other wives, seems
to believe that men can look right at something and not see it. I can’t say that I necessarily do this. I do think that my wife moves things and
hides them and puts them back in an effort to confuse me but “man eyes” well, I
just don’t see it that way. Like I said,
I see just fine; usually. There are
times when I am distracted or I am thinking one way and looking another but “man
eyes” will never happen.
The truth is we humans miss seeing many things. We often fail to see the beauty in life and
we see the shallowness and think that it is true. We look to plastic features and put on
smiles. We look to the world and think
this is how we should be. We fail to see
the truth and blindly follow whichever view feels good.
Fortunately, we have God who looks out for
us at all times. We have God who sees us
at all times. We are never missed or
lost from God’s sight. God never has “man
eyes”. God sees us with a loving heart
that causes a watchful eye that seeks to give us his blessing and favor. God sees our pain, sees our despair and sent
Jesus to remove our pain and to take on our despair. Through the cross we have God’s perfect
promise fulfilled. Through the cross God
looks at us as his children. Through the
cross God looks at us with love and compassion.
God always sees us and is ever present to offer us hope and
comfort. Under God’s watchful eye, we
have peace.
Loving
Father, you watch us with your loving eyes.
You see our pain and our sorrow and you give us hope. Protect us from all of the devil’s
attacks. Defend us with your mercy. Keep us in your loving gaze. Be with those who are especially hurting or
in pain. Give them your Spirit of
comfort and peace. In the precious name
of Jesus we pray, amen,
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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