I’m not good at mental gymnastics so it is confusing to be told I am to ‘fix my
eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.’
Surely if God gave me eyes, He gave them to me to fix on the visible. Sight is
precious and the things I look at are precious.
An interior decorator spoke with me once about choosing colours. He said, ‘Go
and look into a flower that you especially like. Whatever colours you see
blended in it are in perfect harmony. Look at them. Then feel confident in
applying a proportionate mix.’
Here was a man of the world pointing me to the perfect balance of creation, to
the One who knew how to use a paint box. And always since that brief encounter I
have looked at flowers.
The more I look, the more lovely they grow and even tiny weed flowers fill me
with a sense of wonder. They also fill me with awe and the thought of God.
So I fix my eyes on the visible – the running creek, the granite rocks, the
grapevine by the fence, and flowers, always the flowers.
And isn’t it odd, Jesus was the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley? Then He
said of Himself, I am the vine, the water, and the rock.
Maybe that is what He meant, look at my creation long enough and hard enough and
you will look past the visible to the invisible. You won’t see it, you’ll see
Me!
So now, what was Paul saying about fixing my eyes on what is unseen? He said ‘we
fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is
temporary but what is not seen is eternal.’ 2nd Corinthians 4:18.
Elizabeth Price, Team Writer with Just A Minute
reprice@dragnet.com.au
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