Seen Enough Yet?

April 27

Read: Proverbs 27

Seen Enough Yet?

“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.” (v.20)

What is it that you are looking for? I mean literally - what is it that your eyes are scanning for each day? What are you watching? What are you on the lookout for? “Will you ever “see enough” to let your eyes “rest”? And even more importantly, why does this matter:

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.” -Jesus (cf. Matt 6:22-23)

Our eyes will never stop looking, and because they are the “lamp of the body”, what they are looking at are the difference between “life” and “death”. Our eyes will always be scanning… always looking… always “taking in” either light / life or darkness / death. This is what it means when we say someone has “hungry eyes”. This is the reason that the eyes here are put alongside “Sheol and Abaddon”. Sheol is the place of death that never gets its fill… and Abandon is a bottomless pit of destruction and the name of the Angel that destroys. Reckless eyes will destroy us and lead us into a “bottomless pit”. I have often wondered if the technology of today isn’t a “bottomless pit” that has captured so many people’s eyes? How many people are “lifeless” s they endlessly scroll down the bottomless pit of technology… looking to find something there that the platform does to have to give. I wonder how many wandering eyes have brought “death” to relationships around the world. The eyes are the “window to the soul”.

God is not asking us to “close our eyes'', rather he is asking us to open them to HIM. Our eyes will always be looking to observe something, may they be on the look out for Christ in others. May they be on the lookout for the ways that God the Father is working in the world around us. May our eyes scan for the “eternal attributes of God'' that have been embedded in the natural world around us. (cf. Romans 1) May we be given “eyes to see” the Kingdom of God around us. (cf. John 3:3) This is what Christ opens our eyes to: “Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” (Luke 10:23-24) We will never stop feasting our eyes on pointless things until we are given something worthy to set our eyes upon! Our eyes will “never be satisfied” here… may we never get our fill of seeing Christ work. May we remain hungry to see the hand of God in our world. May we never grow weary of searching for the image of God in others. What will your eyes be looking for today? Your phone screen will not satisfy. That scandalous image will not do. The look in the mirror of that new outfit will not satiate what you are hungry for. Don’t close your eyes, but rather open them to the Kingdom of God being revealed to you all around you! Love you guys. - JDP