The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22-23
“God lets Himself be seen by those who are able to see Him because they have the eyes of their soul open. Everyone has eyes, but the eyes of some are blinded as it were in the darkness and they cannot see the light of the sun. But the light of the sun does not cease to shine simply because these sightless ones fail to see it; rather is this darkness due to their own inability to see.”
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli as cited by Francis Fernandez in In Conversation with God: Meditations for Each Day of the Year, volume 3 (London: Scepter, 1990) 379.
As I look for God in the sea of people at this Lausanne Congress, I see Him in the faces of His servants from places like Côte d’Ivoire, Pakistan, and Ghana.
I see His glory radiate from their countenances, His kindness from their words, and His goodness from their actions. These are not sightless people.
They have the eyes of their soul open. This fills them with faith to live, give, serve, and love generously. So, at this huge event, I have simply prayed for God to open my eyes.
His light is shining on the darkness of our days. If I miss it, Eugenio would say, it is not because the light is not shining but because of my sightlessness.
May God grant everyone reading this healthy eyes and clear vision, because, as Jesus makes clear in today’s Scripture, that impacts everything else.