May we see our lives and the world as Christ desires for us to this day and each day forward
New Eyes
The french novelist and literary critic, Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Kundtz titled today’s reading “New Eyes” is encouraging readers to take on a new lens of seeing life in a different perspective. As he continues with the theme of this book he says, “For today, please see time spent doing nothing not with your old eyes, not as a waste of time, not as boring, not as unproductive, not as guilt-ridden lazi-ness. Now, please see it with new eyes, as very fertile time, as urgently necessary and life-giving time, in which to wake up and remember who you are.”
Psalms 119 has a few verses that resonate with today’s message. They read, “Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments... I will meditate on your precepts, and fix my eyes on your ways…. Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law… Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; give me life in your ways” (verses 6, 15, 18, and 37). As we are encouraged today, may we take on a new outlook in how we see things in like, appreciating what we are blessed with, and seeing God provides us with what we need, we must be obedient with it, to include resting, being.
FMBC Weekly Reading: Galatians 1:13-17
Paul the apostle called into Christian service
“You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus.”
I believe I was in the 4th grade when I took a walk down the aisle at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church to accept the Lord as my personal Savior. I was innocent then and always heard my parents speaking about God, and I had been involved in the church since I was in kindergarten. I am so grateful to have accepted Him at that age, for I have always known, the church—Christ is where I can always go and return to when I don’t know where to turn. When did you accept Christ?
Youversion Verse of the Day
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
May we work to worship our Father with others in our lives each opportunity we have to witness.🙏🏽💚🦋🌈
May we see our lives and the world as Christ desires for us to this day and each day forward, my friend.
