EYES OF THE HEART

Faith is processing something perhaps not yet fully experienced or fully believed. It is seeing without seeing and believing without seeing. It is seeing with the eyes of the heart.

Paul, an apostle, wrote, “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.” (Ephesians 1:17-19)

To engage the eyes of the heart by faith is to pray for ‘the Spirit of wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of Jesus.’ True faith is this then: that the ‘eyes of our heart’ through faith may enlighten our minds. This would is contrasted later in Paul’s letter in Ephesians 4:17-18, “You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts. They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.”
Lord, enlighten the eyes of our hearts.

“Blessed are your eyes because they do see, and your ears because they do hear.” Jesus