I Lift My Eyes
Girl from Kujama, Nigeria (photograph by Trevor Irwin)
Today, I want to review an easy spiritual discipline that can really help put things in perspective—the practice of lifting up our eyes.
It is easy to walk through life with your head down. With your eyes on the ground, you can stay on task, focus on what is in front of you, and tune out almost everything else. And if you do that for long, you will develop the bad habit of not really seeing the world as it truly is.
“I lift my eyes to you,” writes the Psalmist (Psalm 123:1).
Have you done that today? Have you stopped and looked up to see the throne of our loving Father? Or has your nose been right at the grindstone?
You need to make the choice and stop. Breathe normally, but lift your eyes to the throne of heaven. It may feel unusual to think about praying with your eyes wide open, but when you enter a quiet moment like this, you will begin to see God’s world around you. If you feel distracted come back to the phrase, “I lift my eyes to you.” Stay here for 5 minutes.
Lift your eyes and see what happens to your soul.
