While driving in the country, I often look up at the electric lines that edge the road to watch for birds, especially hawks. I love the strength and stateliness of them as they watch the ground below for prey or soar over the fields. Yesterday, my son and I were driving home when we saw a large bird, bigger than any hawk I have seen. Simultaneously we blurted out, “Bald eagle!” Standing at least two feet tall, wings tucked back, head turned slightly, the majestic bird held court high above his kingdom.
I wanted to pull off the road and watch him. He was worthy of being watched and studied. I wondered how many other cars had driven past without ever looking up. We saw the eagle because we were looking, our eyes were open to see what was going on around us.
I thought of Jesus and how He too, is watching from the Throne Room, majestic, strong, protective, and only visible to those who want to see Him. I could go through my day with my head down, focused on the to-do list that never seems done. Or I can take the time to look around, to feel the sun warm my skin, to see the sun rays that cut through the clouds shining.
I am able to see the stars at night fill the sky like diamond dust, to hear the owls calling to each other. I watch the sun rising over the barn every day changing shadows and waking the animals to begin their day of foraging. The sun, sky, and moon working together perfectly, according to God’s great design. These natural occurrences are actually part of the way I believe God tries to get our attention. If we see the creation, maybe we will be open to seeing the Creator. It is up to us. We can either curse the creation, thereby cursing the Creator- or we can celebrate what we see because it draws us to the Maker.
It is when we forget that everything that surrounds us, including the buildings in the city made by man’s hand after being designed by man’s mind, is all evidence of the Heavenly design of God. He made us, gave us the wisdom, the skills, the abilities to make the skyscraper and the simple home. By looking at the world through Heavenly eyes, seeing all that God has touched and blessed, I see the hand of God as well. The way He created the animals and plants to live symbiotically, the way He made man to be at peace and rest. Each one of these experiences draws me closer to the One who made it all- God Himself.
It just takes the eyes and heart to see what He is showing us and sharing with us. O Best Beloved, what are you seeing? What are you missing? Let us open our eyes. To our spouse. To our children. Our friends and family. This world is in need of Jesus- let us be aware of His movements all around us.
[ The Incarnation of the Word of Life ] That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life (John 1:1).
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