Open Our Eyes...

OPEN OUR EYES…Blindness is common to our human condition. I am not speaking of physical blindness, but rather blind to needed perspectives. We each have a world that we live in. This world is a culmination of past lessons learned, personality traits, and attitudes we’ve learned from others we’ve been around. The are the things that have shaped our views, by which we interpret everything by. But sometimes our world doesn’t provide what we need, nor does it instinctively make room for God’s plans in response to our needs. This is referred to as paradigm blindness. In other words, we just can’t see outside of our memorized thought patterns and ‘lived in’ world.
“Just then God opened her eyes. She looked. She saw a well of water. She went to it and filled her canteen and gave the boy a long cool drink. God was on the boys side as he grew up.” ~Gen. 21:19
This is the story about Hagar. Sarah was frustrated with her servant Hagar and sent her away into the wilderness. She was out of water, and her boy was wasting away in the hot sun. She sat down and cried, on the edge of fainting and no options left. In that desperate moment, God opened her eyes, and in the near distance was a well. She didn’t expect a well to be there, they were in the wilderness afterall. Whether it was a well that had been dug by man, or was miraculously provided by God, it was there to sustain them, thought they didn’t see it at first. Hear this point clearly: God is pulling for us and providing for us, but we will forever need Him to OPEN OUR EYES! ~verlon