Open Your Eyes

When I started this blog, I was in a season of intense prayer. God had told me it was time for me to change jobs. I had been in my job for 11 years. I was 25 when I started and 36 when I left.

Leaving was not easy; I became an adult there. Moreover, I had served with most of my colleagues for over a decade; they were friends and family, and still are.

There comes a time, though, when it is time to move. God moved me from a place of comfort and stability to a deep place of trust. My job now is incredible, except that it requires a lot of dependency on God. Everything about it is uncertain. The only certainty I have is that God is Provider.

Reading the Book of Esther over the last week has shown me that there is no such thing as coincidence, only God’s providence. God may be silent at times, but he is not absent.

Tonight’s focus is on God to manifest His presence and glory. The very fact that I can trust him as Provider demonstrates that He is indeed present. I do not always see Him, but in the years I have known God, he has demonstrated that He is unchanging and faithful.

If we want to see God manifest His presence and glory, we just need to open our eyes, both physically and spiritually. Psalm 19:1 says that “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands”. Therefore, when we step out of our home with a desire to find God, we can look up to the sky and there we will find vast evidence of His glory.

If you are reading this, today we experienced the display of His sovereignty when we woke up with breath in our lungs.

The day we gave our lives to Christ and opened our hearts to receive His unmerited grace, that day, we also experienced His manifest presence through the expression of His love. Even more, we received the revelation of the mystery of His glory, something that our ancestors in the Old Covenant did not get to experience.

My point is this: The few examples in this reflection will do no justice to the manifest presence and glory of God. What I am saying is that if we want to see, we just need to open our eyes.

Scripture References: Ezekiel 37:27-28; John 1:14; Ephesians 3:17-19