Opening Our Spiritual Eyes

Open My Eyes That I May See….

These words to an old hymn recently began to make new sense to me. I have been the pastor at the Virginia Avenue & Macedonia Churches since the end of June 2005. I arrived in the height of summer. The leaves were green and the forests lush with vegetation. As I traveled back and forth to Macedonia, it was almost like driving through a green tunnel at times.

Now, however, it is fall. The leaves are falling away and I am beginning to see things that were there all the time, but that have been hidden from my sight. I have discovered houses I had been driving by but could not see. I now see foundations from former homes that have long since rotted away. I see refrigerators dumped at the side of the road. All of these things were there when I arrived in June, its only after the leaves have fallen, though, that I can see them.

I sometimes wonder, “What is blocking my spiritual vision? What is all around me that I cannot see until some veil or blockage is removed from my sight?”

Have you ever thought about your spiritual vision? What do you now see and what could you be seeing in relation to God’s Kingdom if only your eyes could be opened?