Lord, Open Our Eyes

As this Monday unfolds what do you have on your agenda? What things do you need to tackle? What has the bulk of your attention and focus today?

What does God have for you today? What purposes has He set before you to believe and achieve? You know good and well when God has a purpose Satan will try and oppose that purpose in your life. He comes to make havoc and declare war against the purposes and people of God. His tactics and assaults are relentless.

Maybe from your vantage point all you can see is overwhelming obstacles. Everything may seem against you. You may feel there is no hope. No clear path to victory. If so I have a passage I would like you to read about another man that felt overwhelmed.

2 Kings 6:13-18 (NKJV)
13  So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." And it was told him, saying, "Surely he is in Dothan."
14  Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
15  And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
16  So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17  And Elisha prayed, and said, "LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see." Then the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18  So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray, with blindness." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

The backdrop of this story is the Syrian King wanted Elisha captured. God kept revealing to Elisha the military plans of the Syrian army and throwing a monkey wrench into everything. So one night a unit was sent to capture Elisha. Elisha's servant awoke to find they were surrounded. Elisha had a different perspective. He had God's perspective.

What is your perspective on your current circumstances? What do your eyes tell you? I pray the simple prayer of Elisha over you. "Lord, please open their eyes that they may see from your perspective."

From God's point of view things do not look so hopeless. From Heaven God sees the truth of your circumstances. He sees the cause and effects. He sees the outcome. He most definitely sees you too. I hope and pray God would open your eyes to see what He sees so clearly. Then you would not have cause to worry and be anxious. Then your faith would be strengthened because you would see God is in control.

What looked like impossible odds to the servant in reality meant an improbable victory. The army that surrounded Elisha in truth was surrounded by the army of God. God outmaneuvered and outflanked the enemy forces who thought they had the upper hand.

Not only that, God answered Elisha's prayer and struck the whole Syrian army blind that day. They became helpless in one fell swoop.

What God did for Elisha and his servant He is more than capable of doing for you too. So again I pray, "Lord please open their eyes that they may see what you see. In Jesus name amen."