In poetry many a writer has spoken of the magical looks given by two people who are in love. Doctors have instructed amnesia patients to view pictures of their past and family to awaken their memories that have seemingly been lost. The eyes even dictate how our taste develop through out our lives. If something doesn't look appetizing, no matter the taste, we find it hard to eat. If something doesn't look good we say that we wouldn't be caught dead in it. To humanity in general, we rely on our eyes to keep our other senses in check. We will protect our eyes at all cost; it is just something genetic, something that we cannot do anything about. It is a subconscious reaction that takes precedence over just about every other thought or response.
So why all the talk about eyes? Well, there are many attributes to God that we are enlightened to through the pages of the Holy Scripture. The work of his hands are verity and judgement. His feet are said to be beautiful, his mouth speaketh truth, but there are few characteristics that are eluded to with such detail and passion as the eyes of the Lord. Even God, while in the days of his flesh, said that "the light of the body is the eye." (Matt. 6:22) They are indeed the windows to the soul. Perhaps that is why God gave us such a clear picture of what his eyes do. That by them we my see the soul of God.
In the beginning we read that God viewed the land, the beast, the man, all that he had created and made "and behold, it was very good." (Gen. 1:31) Then we read on that once mankind fell from the grace of God the he"saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." (Gen. 6:5,6) So we find that God's eyes "are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." (Pro. 15:3) There is no place beyond which he cannot see. Therefore "his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men." (Psa. 11:14)
The eyes of the Lord are also meant for guidance. We are to seek after his ways and desire to be what he would have us be. We must follow withersoever his eyes may lead us, and in which direction he looks, we must go. For truly he hath promised that "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." (Psa. 32:8)
As we look deeper into God's soul we find that "His eyes are as the eyes of doves" (Song 5:15). He looks upon his children with love and that he is attentive unto their cries. It is in his eyes that we find favor and it is in his eyes that the fulness of grace dwells. |
