During Psychology, my professor was talking about selective viewing. It is when we tend to focus attention on one particular stimulus and fail to recognize other stimuli. This is due to change blindness and our failure to see the change in a stimulus, such as in the "flicker paradigm test". This all seemed interesting, but then he said one sentence and it hit me. He said "We have a tendency to look but fail to see things."
This is entirely too true. We often look at everything around us, but we really fail to SEE things. I often fail to see with God's eyes- to see the heart of others, to see the root of a problem, to see the true circumstance behind an issue/sin, or to see the causation of why someone is doing something that is "wrong". I often fail to see those who need love, who are hurting, and lonely. I often fail to see those who are lost and broken.
Every morning and throughout the day, I pray that I see with God's eyes. He wants me to see the lonely, hurt, broken, and lost. He wants me to notice problems and allow Him to solve them. He wants to heal. He wants to save. He desires for me to love with His real love and to spread His truth through my actions, and when needed, with words. I am called to this.
Sometimes our vision gets blurred by the world or by society's skewed views. Sometimes its easy to forget about what is really important, focusing on a deadline or minuscule things such as appearance or selfish desires rather than spreading love and sharing the Gospel. When we come to the Throne of God, He forgives us of our sin. During our moments of surrender, He cleanses us, purifying our hearts to become more like His. He showers us with His Mercy, Grace, and Love. He fills us up so that we may overflow. He gives us HIS eyes so that we can see everything that we keep missing on our own.
During Human Anatomy and Physiology on Monday, the professor was talking about the nerve cell membrane and how it is much more permeable to potassium than sodium because potassium tends to leak out of nerve and muscle cells causing any sodium that leaks inside to immediately be pumped outside by an energy using (ATP) sodium pump. For every three sodium pumped out, there are two potassium pumped inside. The ratio is 3:2. And then he said something that hit me (yet again on that lovely Monday): "There is no explanation. It just is."
Sometimes we search for explanations. We want to know why something is a certain way, what the future will hold, why something happened to us or someone else, why Calvinism and Arminianism seem to conflict with one another, why God is God? We search and search until we become exhausted. Sometimes we fail to accept the fact that God is all-knowing. Sometimes we fail to accept that we cannot comprehend the plans of the Lord because His ways are greater than ours. But there is beauty in His plans and in His timing. There is beauty in Divine mysteries. Sometimes there is no explanation. It just is. We have to trust in God and keep the faith because He knows what is best, for our good and His glory.
1 Peter 1:8-9 ~ "Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls."
2 Corinthians 4:18 ~ "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Hebrews 4:13 ~ "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
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