Now I See It!

My grandkids love to look through binoculars. There is something fun about seeing things far away that were impossible to see before. It’s like a superpower!

The staggering beauty of Jesus Christ is impossible to totally take in. It needs to be magnified. We must possess superpower vision to see how lovely He truly is. Come, Holy Spirit—the Divine Magnifier!

Scripture tells us what “no eye has seen” God now reveals “by His Spirit.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10

Did you catch that? Without the Holy Spirit we can not see the awesome beauty of God. King David longed to see what the human eye could not see, so he prayed:

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple. Psalm 27:4

David was a busy guy fighting wars and ruling a nation. Power and position however wasn’t his life’s main ambition. His greater desire was to leave the king’s palace and enter the temple and just sit and gaze at the beauty of the Lord.

To gaze means to stare. Do you ever take time and just stare at Jesus? By stare I mean meditate and contemplate the wonder of who He is and what He’s done. If we don’t stop and stare at Him, we will spend our time staring at inferior things, like ourselves, or our problems. I’ve done way too much of that! I need to stare more at the cross. Christ’s crucifixion seems so ugly until I realize it was love for me that held Him there. Stop and take time to stare at Jesus suffering on the cross. See His pain. Feel His love.

I also need to stare more at the empty tomb. It shows me that death couldn’t stop Jesus from being with me. Take time to gaze at the empty tomb and think about how His resurrection affects your eternity.

Do you ever sit and ponder what life will be like a million years from now, when we will be with Jesus? I’m overwhelmed that He desires to spend eternity with me! I need to stare at heaven more.

Now do you see it? Do you see the beauty of God’s unfailing love for you? May we be able to echo the words of the apostle John when he wrote:

We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14.

Holy Spirit, open my eyes to see what mere mortals can not see—the glory of the Lord!

We were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 

All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory. 2 Corinthians 3:18

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him. But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10