Cast Your Eyes Up to Heaven
On the way to work today I was listening
to a gospel song by Lyle Lovett. When I
first got in the car I was thinking about what I needed to do when I got to
work and then there is my whole other to do list of things that need to get
done away from work. Needless to say my thoughts weren’t on heaven.
When the song came on I started
listening to the lyrics and it struck me how true they are, so I hit repeat and
listened to it again. There are a lot of
hallelujahs but my favorite verse talks about when he was a baby sitting on his
mama’s knee. She told him, “Son, if you
cast your eyes up to heaven, Heaven’s what you’ll see.”
I think that is an amazing lyric. If we keep our gaze on the Father we’ll see
Him. Our gaze must be focused on Him or
we lose sight of Him. There is a lot of sorrow, pain, hate and injustice in
this world we live in.
On Saturday I went to visit my sister
and parents. When my husband got home
our back gate was open as well as our back door. When he walked into the house he realized
someone had broken into our house. When
I got home the police were inside dusting for fingerprints. The thieves kicked in our back door and
trashed our house. They took the drawers
out of my nightstand and chest of drawers and dumped all of my clothes on the
floor. They went through each room and
pulled things out of the closets and dumped them on the floor. They took our
TV, my new laptop, cash, my husband’s high school and college class rings. I
had a bag that I had packed for when I go to the hospital for surgery and they
dumped some of it on the floor and used it to take the coins my husband had in
his office. I was left with one slipper
and no robe. Our six month old puppy was
in his kennel by the back doors when they broke in so he was traumatized. He wouldn’t eat yesterday or today. I mean you
can’t make this stuff up.
My husband and I were sitting on our
couch on Sunday looking at the blank space where our TV used to be and I
started laughing. I mean it is a whole
lot better than crying. As my husband
put it, “The previous years have been really good to us, so now we’re making up
for it in 3 months.” On the same day I
was diagnosed with cancer a hail storm hit our house and vehicles, the next
month our hot water heater went out, and now we were burglarized. As we sat
there laughing we talked about how much God has blessed us. You don’t have to
look far to see someone in a worse situation than yourself.
Some of the ladies at work gave me a
t-shirt that says “Not today Satan”.
Have you figured out that the closer you get to God the more Satan
attacks you. He tries to break us just
like he tried to break Jesus. He wants
us to give up on God. It would be so
much easier to just give in to Satan and then he would leave us alone. What I do know is that I believe in an
amazing God and I will never give up on Him.
If I keep my eyes on Heaven; Heaven is what I’ll see.
I love the last verse and stanza.
Though I walk through
Death's dark valley
On that road of misery
I just keep my eyes on Heaven
Heaven is where I'll be.
Death's dark valley
On that road of misery
I just keep my eyes on Heaven
Heaven is where I'll be.
Written & performed by Lyle Lovett
Prayer for the Day: Heavenly Father, thank
you for giving me this song that lifted me up on my way to work. I was so immersed in my thoughts about what I
thought I needed to do, that I lost sight of You. Help me to keep my eyes on You so that Heaven
is what I see. “Sing Praise the Lord, Sing
Hallelujah, I’m going to the place my Father has made.”
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