Tuesday... Please open our eyes to see.

Tuesday... Please open our eyes to see. This is such a good prayer to pray each morning as we head out into a new day.

Proverbs 19:3 (NIRV) gives one way to see. And so many see life this way. It says, "A person's own foolish acts destroy their life. But their heart is angry with the Lord." So many don't see with an honest heart. They don't accept the blame so they place it somewhere else and God is a good one for many to blame. That is one way to see hardships and difficulties.

Over in Acts 14 is another way. Paul and Barnabas were out traveling and sharing the good news in many different towns and they finally make it back to where they started and this is what happened. Verses 27-28 (MSG) says, "On arrival, they got the church together and reported on their trip, telling in detail how God had used them to throw the door of faith wide open so people of all nations could come streaming in. Then they settled down for a long leisurely visit with the disciples." The NLT said, "reported everything God had done through them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, too."

A pretty good report, right? That is how they saw what had happened. But let me share a couple of things that happened to them. Verse 5 (NLT) says, "Then a mob of Gentiles and Jews, along with their leaders, decided to attack and stone them." We might see that as something negative but they saw it differently

Verse 19 says, "Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead. But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town." No blaming God there. He just kept at it.

Again verse 27 (NIRV) says, "They told how he had opened a way for the Gentiles to believe."

So we as Christ followers must see our days from a different perspective. Please God, open our eyes to see this day as you see it. And may we see how You are using what is happening to us to open the door of faith to those around us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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