If we only knew who we are.
If we only knew exactly how the Father sees us.
We met a man on the streets yesterday asking for money. His eyes were glazed over as if in a haze. From the slew of our broken Spanish intermixed with his clear steady voice, we discovered that he had been blind for 33 years.
33 years without sight.
33 years in the dark, oblivious to chaos around him. Not capable of seeing the crowded market place, stands overflowing with papayas, mangos and bananas. Each vendor trying to make a living, enough to support their children running barefoot and free avoiding burns from the black of the pavement. Never once has he witnessed the clouds creep over the light blue of the sky forming castles of grey threatening to burst over the already lush landscape. Unaware of the light skin tone of the 4 strangers standing before him, listening intently in order to understand each foreign word.
We asked if we could pray for his sight.
He declined.
He said why bother? The Lord will be coming back soon and then he will be able to see. Until then, what was the point? After all it had always been this way, why should we even bother the Lord with this matter?
If he only knew who he was.
Why is it so hard to believe- why is it so hard for ME to believe that our Father cares about us? Why is it so hard to wrap our minds around the fact that we are not a waste of time.
You are NOT a waste of time.
Ephesians 2:10 says, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
If God cared enough to create not ONLY you but good works for you to do as well, than why do we believe we are so easily discarded?
We are adopted as sons and daughters, and from what I gather, that was not an easy adoption process- there is a pretty big book written about it.
Why would He go through the pain of the cross just to discard and forget about us? In fact, Hebrews 12:3 tells us to, “Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”
Guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life. –Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart from hopelessness. Guard your heart from feeling discarded or not “worth” the time. Our hearts grow sick from a lack of hope.
Hope in the fact that your Father sees you and He hears you.
Hope in the fact that you are hand crafted by the King of kings.
We never got to pray over that man, but as we walked away we prayed for sight. We prayed for the eyes of his heart to be opened. That the cloud and the haze would be lifted to that he could truly see his identity.
We no longer have to look through a veil. We no longer have to guess at what the Lord is doing, or where He is moving. We can see that with our own eyes.
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
-Romans 8:31-32
