I’ve been RE-captured by the concept of the locked gaze with Jesus. I say "RE"-captured because it seems that as life shifts and business comes, or we’re sideswiped or distracted, it’s easy to let the eyes drift away. But Holy Spirit is so gracious to bring reminders, such as this; “Keep your eyes focused on His eyes. Stay in that place of being captured, right there at His feet.”
Mary was very blessed to have Jesus manifest right in front of her. Can you imagine the man, Jesus in your house for you to look right into those eyes and listen to pure love spill out in His words? Martha, (as Luke 10:41 tells us), had so many things occupying her thoughts and causing worry. She couldn’t see that there was a much more meaningful way to spend her time than making sure everything was tidy. It blinded her so much that she considered Mary’s “gazing” as laziness.
Now we are here in our day to day where we we still have Jesus, but we can’t physically touch Him or see Him, for now. Yet there’s still an invitation to stay in a position before our burning (with love) Savior, locking eyes with Him. How can we do that now?
We have the Word, which is living and true. His Word describes Jesus in various ways. With intentionality we can collect the passage that tell of His beauty, His love, His eyes and His message (which is shown in HIs eyes). Meditate on the Word.
We have our quiet time behind closed doors. Let’s not bring our huge “to do list” there, but choose to be. We can be the one He loves and sit there in that place of truth and let that truth make our eyes more open.
We have worship, where we tell Him (or sing to Him) the things we know about Him and recall what He’s done. It causes Him to be enthroned right there and our eyes become clearer and clearer to His beauty, majesty and love.
We also have other people. Yes it’s true. When we love or allow ourselves to be loved...when we serve with His heart…there’s a gaze into Jesus’s eyes right there. One of my very favorite parts of Les Misérables is in the epilogue when Jean Valjean is passing from this life to heaven and the priest sings the line “To love another person is to see the face of God.” That moment makes me cry heavily every time because of the truth in it.
Friends, no matter what comes and tries to rip us away from keeping our gazed locked with His, even if it’s friend’s not understanding it, let’s just keep it locked. His eyes hold the truth about everything…about them, about you, about answers to every question and a billion other facets of truth. We will be transformed. We will have less and less reason to live in strife and self hatred. Open the windows to pure love!
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