GOD'S EYES: Looking Into Eyes of Love

 

April 6, 2025

Coffee With Jesus, Martha and Mary

GOD’S EYES: Looking Into the Eyes of Love

Good Morning Lord! Thank you for coffee makers that brew a pot of coffee almost instantly when I rise so early and time is limited before I have to rush off to begin my day. This morning I rose in the dark to spend precious time with you before I have to go to work. Today is the last day I will work outside the home. My body says, “Enough!” and my energy and focus are needed to serve you, at home, in different ways now. 

I have an hour to spend with you, sitting here in stillness with you. The apartment is quiet, the only sounds are the quiet breaths I take, the faint hum of the refrigerator, the ticking of the clock and the scratch of my pen on the paper of my journal. I am still, my spirit is calm, I am content, I am grateful.You are so good to me all the time. I am thankful. I am flooded with love for YOU my Beloved Lord.

You want me to be truly present with you in these morning moments, the first fruits of my day. When I give you my first focus of the day I can almost see your eyes shining with your love for me. You not only want me to be “present” with You, You want me to be aware that you are truly present with *me*. You want me to be aware that you are not just some distant deity in the hallowed halls of some heavenly mansion we imagine. YOU are the God who comes to meet us where we are in our earthly existence.

On days like today when there are so many things screaming for my attention, so many tasks waiting to be accomplished, I’m Martha of Bethany, my head and heart so  full of the “have to's" that I find it nearly impossible to sit still at Your feet like my sister Mary. My mind is whirling, filled with eddies of all the things I want to do to make you feel welcome. I’m so distracted by the buzz of business, that I can’t hear your invitation to come sit and rest with you for a while. All you want is my company, all you want is for me to listen to you, my eyes meeting yours with my eyes speaking what words can not. You want me to see  your eyes shining with your love for me. Made in God’s image, we are Godlike in our design, needing to feel seen, heard, loved, cherished. Each time I turn my “eyes” to you I fall deeper in love with you and my soul catches fire. I’ve always loved you Lord; even when I turned my back on you, your eyes were searching for mine, waiting for me to turn back to you. 

When I was a younger girl, falling deeply in love for the first time, the fire of passion raced through my veins. But human love is so different from divine love.  Human love must mellow from that first excitement of “new relationship energy”, tapering off from roaring flames that threaten to consume or destroy us  to a more manageable, approachable and functional bed of glowing coal and embers to sustain life. Lifting my eyes to yours is like striking a match to relight a candle in my soul. The flame burns and glows softly,  revealing the foolishness of all my concerns. It holds shadows and darkness at bay while I turn my rapt attention to you. Your love for each of us is an eternal circle. You loved us before we were born, love us while we are living, and will love us for eternity. My sister Mary of Bethany discovered this kind of rapturous love for you long before I did. All  I need to do to prepare for your presence, all you need to feel welcome in this place, the humble abode of my heart, is for me to lift my eyes to focus on you, listen to you speak and rest with you a while before resuming the mundane things that can wait. Any time I come away to spend time with  you is sacred and eternal, any place where I meet you is holy ground. Come Lord Jesus, you are welcome. With you in my heart all is well with my soul.  

Zechariah 2:13 13 (Good News Translation) Be silent, everyone, in the presence of the Lord, for he is coming from his holy dwelling place.

Song of Songs 2:10 (New International Version) “My beloved spoke and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, come with me.'”

2 Chronicles 16:9 (New International Version) For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.