Seeing Through God's Eyes

As I looked out across the rain-saturated fields this morning, I found it hard to visualize them green and fruitful.  I knew that God’s promise of abundance was still in place, but all my humanness could see was barrenness. How quickly we can lose heart, and faith, when we believe only what our eyes show us.  Opening my Bible to the book of Romans, I began to read about Abraham.  God had promised, this man of faith, that he would be father to many nations. Despite the fact that he was 100 years old and his childless wife, Sarah, was well beyond her childbearing years, he believed God.  His eyes showed him only 2 dried-up, old bodies, but through his steadfast belief, God revealed to him his future. “For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.” Romans 4:13.

 In bookkeeping terms, God took Abraham’s faith and credited to his “account” as righteousness.  The law only points out sin, but faith makes us right with God.  What do your eyes behold today;  Hopelessness, sickness, unhappy relationships, or soggy fields? Don’t believe them!  Let’s choose today to be strengthened in faith like Abraham, and ask God to show us the truth through his eyes.

“In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.” Romans 4:18-25.