My Heart Has Eyes TURNER

There is a song that I’ve been singing. The song’s title is “Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord”. The song talks about seeing God through the eyes in your heart. While I was singing the song around my daughter, she asked a question, “Mom how can I see God through my heart if my heart has no eyes?” I was like wow that was very deep. I told her people will have different interpretations of lyrics of a song and without asking the writer I only can share my interpretation. You see God in your heart through prayer, love, and worship. Your natural eyes allow you to see the miracles that God is doing. While your heart feels the warmth, empathy and compassion of the act that was just shown.

Like in the Bible when God healed the blind man. Before he was healed, he couldn’t see with his natural eyes. He had to interpret visually from sound. In John 9:1-22, “Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So, he went and washed, and came back seeing. Therefore, the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?” Some said, “This is he.” Others said, “He is like him.” He said, “I am he.” Therefore, they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So, I went and washed, and I received sight.” Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I do not know.””

Seeing God is watching Him work miracles on our behalf. So, the seeing aspect is feeling. I told her to close her eyes and to sing a worship song. I asked her what do you see? She said nothing and then I asked her what does she feel? She responded I feel warmth and told her that’s seeing God through the eyes of her heart. Sometimes you can feel all alone because we don’t see God working things out on your behalf. But I propose that maybe you’re not looking through the correct vessel. Know that you aren’t alone, and God is with you even when you don’t see Him. When I was younger, I went through a time in my life where I felt like God had forgotten about me or turned His back on me. I thought about committing suicide and turning away from God. I wondered what I had done to deserve what was happening to me.

Through much prayer I realized that I couldn’t control the actions of others, I could only control me. I was more than enough and what was happening to me had nothing to do with me but everything to do with the other individual. I began to see God through the eyes of my heart. God kept me through that time, and He is still keeping me. I was in a seminar at work and during the seminar the speaker talked about how it’s our job to work together. We are all in the same boat and we needed to work as a team to get to the same destination. At the moment, I thought about Christians working together. We all have the same desire and that’s to see Him and to help draw others. Since we have the same purpose let’s not bicker amongst each other, let’s row the boat together and not against each other. Because if we row the boat against each other we will end up going in circles and not completing the task that Christ left for us.