Simply put I love to read other’s blogs from those currently
on the field to the alumni from the World Race. I am challenged and comforted
as I read what God is teaching others and the similar seasons we all as
believers go through at one time or another.
with, been stretched with, been tempted with or failed at since being home.
toy or their birthday party, in middle school we envy everyone’s life but our
own. In high school we can be tempted to envy a friend for looks or a friend
for their athleticism. Or we envy everyone’s family thinking ours is the only
family with issues and everyone is, “normal”. We can tend to think this green
eyed monster will end if we only get what “they” have or get that one thing we’ve
always wanted.
And just those simple thoughts can cloud our minds until we
realize we are so angry in our present situation because we so badly want to
know why everyone but our own situation seems to be cloud 9.
What happens what has been entrusted to us- situations,
people, and experiences- is not what we had planned or imagined? And we are
left disappointed and angry.
Being in the US now for about 5 months I have heard awesome
stories of what friends are doing after the race- trips to Haiti, leading
mission trips, beginning of graduate school, Spain G42 and the list goes on. And there have been repeated times where I
will walk away from a phone conversation and feel the green eyed monster take
over. I have become envious wondering
why am I not called to _____? God why do I not get to be a part of _____?
I love music; there are songs that
speak louder to me than some devotionals. There is a song called Apple of His eye, in
which the writer sings of Deuteronomy 32:10 *.
The apple of a human eye is the
pupil. The pupil sits in the center part of the iris. It is the black part that
is surrounded by the colored part of your eye (iris). The iris controls the
amount of light that enters the pupil- allowing us to see clearly.
To understand how important his part
of the eye is, I can just think of when I am outside and the wind is strongly
blowing and debris and dirt is near my face I always shield my eyes first. I
always protect my eyes.
When God says we are the pupil, the center part of his eye,
He is saying we are so valuable to Him, that He will take care and watch over
us. With our own human eyes it can be so painful when “To be the apple or pupil
of God’s eye means that He will preserve and take special care of us” **
God is never
interested in us being comfortable, but He promises to care for us.
“and when we get that
see all jealousy, competing, looking over at Esau thinking if we dress ourselves
up like him maybe we’ll receive a
blessing from our Father-is gone. All the jealousy that makes us not like
someone else because it seems like they are getting a blessing-is gone. All of a sudden we are blessed just in our
being”
Jason Upton
Just like you are- you are the apple of our Father’s eye
How comforting to know when the green eyed envy monster
rises up I can be confident that my present situation is right where I am
supposed to be, because I am confident as the apple of God’s eye He sees far
more than I ever can.
* Deuteronomy 32:10 “In a desert land he found him, in a
barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as
the apple of his eye. “
** Merrill F. Unger
