Do you Have Eyes of the World? (Ezekiel 7-13)
Look around and what do you see? Do you see lavish houses, kids dressed to the nines, malls brimming with useless ‘stuff’ to fill your houses with? Do you dream about having that lifestyle? Having eyes of the world is one area our vision needs redirection from.
The book of Ezekiel provides a broader focus for us to set our sights on. We are in this world, but do not need to have eyes of the world.
There is more out there than meets the eye.
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Look around and what do you see? Do you see lavish houses, kids dressed to the nines, malls brimming with useless ‘stuff’ to fill your houses with? Do you dream about having that lifestyle? Having eyes of the world is one area our vision needs redirection from.
The book of Ezekiel provides a broader focus for us to set our sights on. We are in this world, but do not need to have eyes of the world.
There is more out there than meets the eye.
It’s never too late to start!
Download your first two weeks free by signing up below (or buy Book One of the Family Bible Plan)!
Eyes to see...
In the book of Ezekiel, we are told for the second time about a vision including the glory of the Lord and the cherubim guided by the spirit of the living creatures.
We learn even more about these majestic creatures in chapter 10 that wasn’t yet revealed in the first chapter.
Can you honestly imagine what it would be like to see them?
Eyes covering their backs, hands, wings, and the wheels. Eyes all over the place.
These are not eyes of ‘the world’…. I mean, maybe they look like our eyes, but this is just one more example where the things of this world are a partial reality of what is in Heaven. I mean, even the tabernacle represented the temple which represents how Heaven is depicted in Revelation.
Here, we are given a majestic vision of the cherubim, wings touching, with God above them. Similarly, we can look back to the imagery of the ark of the covenant to see a similar display, all planned by God. There are no coincidences.
Worldly view offers glimpses...
The Bible continually relays that the things of this earth have no comparison to what is to come. Yet, we do have small concepts and items that we are given to give us a frame of reference for our minds to somewhat picture the magnitude of Heaven.
Consider our bodies… we have a head, eyes, hands. Yet, angels who were made before we were created have those features also… in very different ways!
- Four faces, and one is human….
- Eyes all over, not just two….
- Hands beneath wings that fire/coals do not burn….
Oh, 'eye' see...
And we can’t forget that it’s even hard to define, with our eyes of the world, the radiance of the light surrounding the glory of God.
Jumping back to the correlations from the tabernacle, do you think now that the items in the tabernacle (ark, lampstands, bowls, tables, rings, altars, etc.) were merely covered in gold to show opulence? They showed a picture of the brilliance to come in an earthly way we could understand!
Consider this, the sun is so bright we cannot even look at it. Do we think the sun is the brightest thing we will ever see? Brighter than it’s Creator?
We just have no idea how holy God really is. This ought to give us pause to consider every aspect of creation and our lives.
Eyes of the world...
We just have no idea how holy God really is. This ought to give us pause to consider every aspect of creation and our lives.
Stop looking through eyes of the world, and put on the sunglasses so we can see the true light in every facet of our lives!
I mean, the gems that Ezekiel names are not even identifiable. How much more so are our eyes limited? The Bible speaks of such a place so far beyond our comprehension, do we consider that our eyes of the world are limited even by color?
Did you know that humans have red, green, and blue cones in our eyes that all work together to form the shades and colors we see? Did you also know that birds have those three AND ultraviolet cones? What about butterflies… with their FIFTEEN different types of photoreceptors?
All of creation points to God… whether or not we choose to see it. Our eyes of the world are literally limiting us unless we choose to use a lens in which we see God in everything!
Do you have eyes of the world?
How are you, Christian, choosing to see the world around you?
The book of Ezekiel is filled with prophecies, destruction, and odd directions from God for Ezekiel to act out as an example to the Israelites.
But it also provides some of the most detailed visions of the glory of God.
This in itself is a great example to look at when considering our lives in relation to the Bible.
We go through weird circumstances here on earth, not fully understanding how they fit into God’s design. But if we go forward through these, not with eyes of the world, seeing them as mere oddities, we then see them in line with the holiness of God: His divine plan, His purposes, and our ultimate good.
Our trials, upsets, challenges, and mercies all have deep purpose behind them because we are being formed to see past our physical surroundings to what is to come. If you only have eyes of the world, your earthly existence will be flat.
The glory of God comes alive when we see our lives through glasses that improve our eyes of the world.
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Hi there, I really enjoyed your post. I am currently making my way through Ezekiel and although alot of it is tough for me to understand, much of it is very beautiful. Makes one long for heaven. I too want eyes to see. I’ve been praying lately in that vein. I want to see what only the Lord can show me. However, what I can see, I want to appreciate too. Great post, I’ve linked up, God bless
Tracy
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We are in for some BIG surprises on the other side!
The glorious mysteries of God.