In Your Eyes

For those of us who may remember the 80's ;)... there was a song by Peter Gabriel that was titled 'In Your Eyes'. The song was also in a scene of the movie 'Say Anything' with John Kussak. The song is sung to a girl in the movie but it's one of those that could be a song about the I-Thou relationship - the relationship we have with God. He sings... In your eyes, I am complete and that he sees light and heat in 'your' eyes.

I think of the verse in Revelation that says of Jesus that there is fire in His eyes. Revelation 19:12, "His eyes are a flame of fire!" Jesus is the light of the world and it is through His light that our darkness is overcome.

Here are some thoughts from David G. Benner, from his book entitled, "The Gift of Being Yourself - The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery":

"I am convinced that God loves each and every one of us with depth, persistence and intensity beyond imagination. God doesn't simply like us. Nor does God simply have warm sentimental feelings towards us just because we were created in the Divine image.

The truth is that God loves us with what Hannah Hurnard calls "a passionate absorbed interest". God cannot help seeing us through eyes of love."

"Even more remarkable, God's love for us has nothing to do with our behavior. Neither our faithfulness nor our unfaithfulness alters Divine love in the slightest degree. Like the father's love in the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15), Divine love is absolutely unconditional, unlimited, and unimaginably extravagant."

Oh, how He loves us! May we be filled with the knowledge of His love to the core and depths of our being.

Seeing ourselves through His eyes of love...