Spiritual Eyes

Our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

WHAT DOES IT mean to see with spiritual eyes? What will you observe if you look at the world and life through such orbs?

For one thing, you will focus not on this world but on the next world. No matter what this world throws at you, if you have spiritual eyes, you see beyond it: “I won’t worry, because one day God will rescue me from this mess, and I’ll live with him in a far better place forever.”

For another, you realize that no matter how badly you’re treated now, one day these tough times will be over, and in God’s new world, you’ll be treated like a family member and a prince or a princess.

Forget any dreams of becoming a member of the House of Windsor or enjoying a weekend in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. You have a home in heaven that will be grander than anything a billionaire could experience on earth.

Spiritual eyes also change your perception of others. You see more than the surface of the people around you. You see them as God’s creations, either in need of redemption (in which case, you’ll want them to hear about Jesus) or as people who have been redeemed—and you welcome them as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Are you seeing the world through spiritual eyes?