Seeing with God’s eyes is perceiving the world through a lens of divine wisdom, compassion, and understanding. It’s looking beyond the surface appearances, biases, or our limited human perspectives to get to a deeper truth about existence, people, and creation.
Seeing through God’s eyes implies aligning our perspective with God’s attributes which are love, mercy, justice, and holiness. It’s about seeing others as God sees them. Seeing them as inherently valuable -created in His image (Genesis 1:27) and that they are worthy of compassion, regardless of any flaws or circumstances.
For example, Jesus’s interactions with the marginalized. Like the Samaritan woman in John 4, reflects this divine perspective.
To see with God’s eyes is practicing empathy, forgiveness, and humility in daily life. It could mean looking past someone’s actions to understand their struggles or recognizing beauty in the mundane.
Seeing with our faith in God means perceiving the world through a lens of trust in God’s divine wisdom.
Being guided by belief in God’s presence, love, and purpose. It’s about letting faith shape how we interpret life’s events, relationships, and challenges. Aligning our perspective with God’s truths which is revealed through scripture, prayer, and spiritual practice.
This involves:
- Trusting In God’s Plan: Believing as Romans 8:28 suggests that,
“All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
Even when the circumstances are unclear we must believe the promise of God in this scripture.
- Heart Centered Vision: Following 2 Corinthians 5:7,
“We walk by faith not by sight.”
We prioritize, spiritual insight over worldly appearances.
- Compassionate Lens: seeing others as God‘s creation, reflecting Jesus‘s command to love others as ourselves as in Matthew 22:39,
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Our neighbors are not just people who live by us they are everyone.
- Guidance Through Prayer: seeing the Holy Spirit’s discernment to view situations with clarity and hope.
Practically this means:
Approaching trials with hope, and trusting in God sovereignty.
Forgiving others, seeing them through God’s grace.
Studying scripture, like Psalms, and the “gospels,” which are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to internalize God’s perspective.
Cultivating gratitude, recognizing God, hand in all things.
Faith driven site, transforms, fear into trust, judgment into mercy, and despair into hope. It’s less about changing what we see and more about how we see it through the assurance of God’s love and promises.
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