1 Corinthians 2:11-12 - Looking with God's eyes

1 Corinthians 2:11-12 “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

Fall is fast approaching. Slowly at first the leaves will start to turn and then faster and faster until the world of the tree tops are a riot of colors with no two leaves exactly the same shade of beauty. Then the leaves will fall to the ground, again starting with one or two leaves leading the way for the rest. Fall is coming with the crisp sparkle of the air, the refreshingly cool and clean air that tells us to bundle up because winter is fast on fall's heels.

We know the changes in the seasons well. We admire each season as something special and excitingly await the next seasonal change, but how often do we think of the beauty that is the dance of the seasons? How often do we look at the bigger picture?  We miss out on so much because we fail to see through God's eyes. This march of seasons pales quickly in our sight when we look through the filters of the world.

Looking and viewing everything through the spirit of the world is something easy to fall back into as well. Remember that although we are no longer citizens of the world, we still live here as ambassadors for Christ. God gave us His Spirit that we could see things the way that He does. Without His Spirit we are unable to even start to know how to approach anything in a way that is most beneficial to Him. But we are human, fallen humans struggling with the world and it is so very easy to forget that it is all about God and that we are recipients of His love, His mercy, His grace, and are the delight of His eyes. 

We find it so easy, a routine that we unconsciously remember from back before we were believers, to put on the world's blinders and forget that we who are children of the King of Kings are able to see without those blinders.  We have been given God's Spirit. We have been cleansed of all unrighteousness and now are participants in His holiness! We aren't the same people we used to be. We can now think God's thoughts and know His feelings and emotions. We have the capability to see everything around us the same way that He does! How amazing is that?  When we remember to look through God's eyes the things we see become brighter, cleaner, crisper, and more beautiful than every before. Each leaf turning color is so vivid that it can hold our attention for hours or days and when we think of that beauty being repeated all over the world, its all we can do to fall on our knees and cry out “My God! How great Thou art!”

This week, let us remember to look through God's eyes. We have His Spirit living inside us, not the world's spirit. We have His love flowing through us, not the world's lust. We have His Heart, not the world's heart, and let us never forget this! God gave us Himself, how can we do any less?

Father of omnipresent grace!
We seem agreed to seek Thy face;
But every soul assembled here
Doth naked in Thy sight appear:
Thou know’st who only bows the knee,
And who in heart approaches Thee.
                                       Charles Wesley, 1767.