Looking Through My Father's Eyes

Neha Anna Thomas

M.Tech, Food Processing

Batch of 2012 

I have heard this particular quote, a number of times in my Christian life. I myself have used it at times to encourage my friends and family. But let me tell you, the most difficult thing in a Christian's life is, looking at life through God's eyes. Sometimes, we refuse to look through His eyes because we enjoy living in self pity. YES!! We humans enjoy dwelling in self pity. We relish pulling out past experiences, mixing it up and adding some masala by thinking of the future situations that life can bring. We love to think that we are the only ones going through all these hard core problems and add more self pity to it. In reality, it's PATHETIC that we actually do this. I don't know what we gain by doing this.

Then we look at life and say "Life is not fair!". Well people, let me get you the fact - Life is never fair, not now, not even when Jesus was on earth. But that's the whole beauty of life. I really cannot imagine living a monotonous life with no ups and downs. I love having surprises along my way - good ones that make me feel happy and not so good ones that make me feel challenged, hopeful, determined and a conqueror in Christ. Jesus was beaten, despised and crucified for doing absolutely nothing but good things. He had to leave his heavenly glory to come to earth, and well, I don't see any fairness in what happened to Him. But Jesus went through it and WON!!! Because when He looked at it, what He saw was not His death or the torture that he had to go through. Instead, He saw OUR SALVATION. So don't let the not so good situations fool you, there is a purpose and a miracle waiting for you at the end of it.

How can we make the not so good times look special? Well, you got to look at it correctly. See, if I want, I can examine it from all angles and see nothing good coming out of it. But I have learned to look at it differently. I look through my special spiritual eyes, that is, my Fathers eyes. When I look at it through His eyes, I see only hope for hopelessness, acceptance for rejection, happiness for sadness, love for hatred, dead situations coming to life and so on. I also believe that problems come our way to make us stronger, to make us trust in the supernatural, to make our faith grow deeper and to make us place our trust in him and not in worldly people.

Today, I challenge you guys to look at life through His eyes. Your lives will never be the same. When you are faced with a situation, tell the problem, " I am going to beat you and win this challenge. I am going to climb this mountain and face you like David faced Goliath because I believe in a living God who does not have the word impossible in his dictionary but only VICTORY!!"
 

GOD BLESS!!