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Fix Your Eyes

The week before Christmas, I saw two shooting stars.

I saw the first one while driving down Kensington Street. A white streak of light shot from left to right across the southern sky and I asked my youngest daughter, “Did you see that?” Her response was, “Nope! I was looking the other way”.

I saw the second one while driving back from a Christmas concert in Regina. It was about 12:30 at night and I was on highway 39, just outside of Weyburn when a bright green streak caught my eye. It was falling straight down and as it got closer to the earth, it seemed to slow down and the path of light behind it got larger and larger. It was only there for a second, but it cast a bright green glow throughout the vehicle. “Did you see that?” I asked the rest of the family. The answer was, “no”. Sara was sort of half sleeping and had her eyes closed. The girls said that they saw the glow, but they missed seeing the shooting star.

Now here is the thing: Scientists claim that there are literally millions of shooting stars each day, but we miss the majority of them either because conditions are not right (too sunny, too cloudy, too many lights in town) or, like my kids, we simply are not looking for them.

What if the same is true regarding God? What if the question is not, “Is God doing anything?” but “Am I looking for what God is already doing?”

The Bible says, “Fix your eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2). What if that is the key? Could it be that there are all kinds of great and marvelous things happening all around us and we are missing them because we are either half-asleep or looking in the wrong direction?

That passage goes on to say that if we keep our eyes on Jesus, if we are looking to and look for him, that we will “not grow weary and lose heart” (12:3).

In 2010, I am going to try to “fix my eyes” on the things of God. If I look for him in the obvious places, maybe I will find him in a bunch of unexpected places as well.

God is working. His Spirit and word can change us. We can have hope and peace. A new life is waiting.

Can you see it?

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