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“Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.” - Psalm 119:18

We may have all dreamt of being superheroes at one point in time, especially maybe when we were children. If I could have just one supernatural power… I’d love to have the same power as David in Jumper, the ability to teleport to any location you can think of.. or maybe posess one of “Heroes” TV series character’s supernatural power like Peter’s empathic mimicry or Nakamura’s time and space bending. Well, so much for those fantasy and fictional imageries. In reality, if I were to ask a supernatural ability from God… it will be the ability to see things as He sees them. To see beyond the storms in our lives, beyond the clouds that glooms our horizon and makes our future uncertain. But I realized, God gave us more than that.. He gave us the ability to have faith in Him. Our faith is far more powerful than any other supernatural powers we can ever imagine.. faith can move mountains, faith can conquer all, faith can make impossible.. possible. But aside from faith, God also gave us a special gift that will open our eyes to see spiritual truths. The Psalmist in Psalm 119:18 cried out to God - “Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.” The psalmist desired more than surface perceptions.. he had great desire to dig deeper and see beyond what our physical eyes and mind can achieve. I have been into a lot of tough times in life, so many regrets hovering my mind and doubts about what the future holds. I realized I needed to turn to God in prayer and ask Him to break this mental cloud and open my eyes to see His perfect plan. And God did, I could feel His spirit comforting me and I can’t help but submit to His awesome presence as tears continue to roll down my illuminated eyes.

I also recall something in the Bible in 2nd book of Kings. It was from the 2nd Kings chapter 6 in which Elisha and his servant were surrounded by the Syrian army. The servant was frightened and asked Elisha what they would do. Elisha told him not to fear, and also prayed that God would “open his eyes,” so the servant would become aware they were completely surrounded by spiritual support. These ideas brought to my attention that I needed to stop seeing some shaky situation, and instead ask God to “open my eyes,” to show me what was really going on beyond the physical realm.

I do hope that God will always open our eyes whenever we see things vaguely. God doesn’t want to hide anything from us. We are just not seeing it because maybe our eyes are blinded or have become dim through sin, unwillingness, worldliness or compromise.

…because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous. - Matthew 5:45

I was about to leave the house to go to the office this morning when heavy rain poured viciously, which made me wait until the rain subsides (days i miss having my old car), safe enough to reach the shuttle station without getting wet. On my way near Makati area everything’s dry, scattered rainshower. This reminded me of Matthew 5:45, where our Lord talks about the sun rising and rain falling on every living thing. Makes me also think that rain doesn’t care but surely God does, Praise the Lord! It also tells us that, like rain, good and bad things happen to everyone, forgiven believers or wicked unbelievers. Bad things can either make us or break us, it’s our choice how we want it to affect us. We just have to remember that God will see us through if we hold on.

1 Corinthians 10:13 tells us “…God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but along with the temptation (or trials) he will also make the way out in order for you to be able to endure it.” See how good our God is, He may allow these things to happen but He will also provide us a way out of every trouble, that is if we can see the way out clearly through God’s illuminating words.

And if we have to endure every dark moments of our lives, so be it. God is still and will always be good. We survive through His mercy. It could be far worse. We deserve far worse. But God has not given up on us and never will. He has not forgotten us. He loves us so much.

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.
(Ephesians 2:4-6)

I have deleted all previous blog entries. Done and good ridance with the old dark days of our lives… let us all enjoy the bright and new sunny days God is giving us. I will try to write new entries which will hopefully uplift someone’s spirit, perk up a gloomy soul and glorify God at the same time.

‘Til then… may God be with us all.