EYES WIDE OPEN

EYES WIDE OPEN

Lam. 3:22-23 Through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.

One of the amazing things about conversion is how we suddenly become aware of God. We often think, “How could I have missed Him? His handprint is on everything and I see Him everywhere I look”. That’s when we realize just how lost we were. We had eyes but we couldn’t see Him. We had ears but could never hear His precious voice. We had a heart but it was crusty and cold, they were locked up, closed off from the power of His love. When we were born again all of that changed. It seemed so simple at first. God was everywhere. How could I have missed it? Then we begin to realize the greatness of this gift of salvation by grace through faith. Charles Spurgeon spoke as one with eyes wide open, check this out.

“He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing. As the King can never die, so his grace can never fail. Daily we pluck his fruit, and daily his branches bend down to our hand with a fresh store of mercy. Who has ever returned from his door unblessed? Who has ever risen from his table unsatisfied, or from his bosom un-emparadised? His mercies are new every morning and fresh every evening. Who can know the number of his benefits, or recount the list of his bounties? Every sand which drops from the glass of time is but the tardy follower of a myriad of mercies. The countless stars are but as the standard bearers of a more innumerable host of blessings. Who can count the dust of the benefits which he bestows on Jacob, or tell the number of the fourth part of his mercies towards Israel? How shall my soul extol him who daily loadeth us with benefits, and who crowneth us with loving-kindness? O that my praise could be as ceaseless as his bounty! O miserable tongue, how canst thou be silent?”

I remember when I first saw the power of today’s scripture verse. It was a Saturday morning in Kerman, California. It was my wife Parris’ and my only day off and I was enjoying my Bible that lazy Saturday morning. That’s when I saw it. Daily benefits!! The Lord had daily mercies, daily gifts pouring down on me. That is true about all His sons and daughters. I guess many times we are clueless. We tend to live below our privileges and act like the deaf and blind people we used to be. So open up your senses to The Lord today, streams of mercies are flowing down. As we open our hearts up to Him we begin to see Him everywhere. He is nearer than you can imagine.