Wash Your Eyes

God knows The Fall perverted our survival instincts.  Instead of running to each other for help with our struggles, we run away.  Instead of fighting the cancer of blame, we feed on it.  We give our struggles names of people instead of names of principalities and we tear down the people closest to us - the people God gave us to make us strong.  We live in confused chaos and filth but long for order and beauty.  We build our own kingdoms that are cheap imitations of the Garden. And our gardens grow; what we sow, we will reap.

God made us for relationship.  We learn relationship from our mother and father.  We watch how they handle their own pain and fear.  Forgiveness is the visual aspirator for the eyes of our heart.  Getting the debris out of our eyes refocuses our trust.  We listen as our elders identify struggles the way God does.  God calls our struggles "sin" and "principalities" - not people.  We learn the language of Truth.  We witness others struggling against ignorance by seeking wisdom; we witness the strong helping the weak. We watch how our mothers and fathers take care of their eyes because we see how they love and honor each other- or not.

There is no true Beauty if their is no real holiness. "Order" is not an option. There is no real Love if there is a record of wrongs.  Judging is the opposite of honor.  Idolatry is the opposite of grace.  If our language is not learned from God's naming of "Good" and "Evil", we will blame.  Blame is a lie and we will teach our children to speak the language of this world.  Dishonor is our fallen dialect.  We either teach our children to harshly wield a judge's gavel or to gently wash the dirt and thorns out of their eyes.  We can help them learn how to enforce punishment orders and build prisons, or we can help them learn how to wash with Precious Blood to heal wounds. Deliver us from Evil, Father.

God designed our homes to be wound hospitals. God knew innocence would not last in the Garden; He created families so we could care for each other in a fallen world.  At first we need help keeping our eyes clean; we have to learn to see.  We are confused and call the log in our own eye a speck in our brother's.  God knows that everything looks bigger close up.
 
"Taste and see that the Lord is good."  "Look to Me and be saved."  Good wine.  Real bread. Family meals. Wash your eyes.  Speak Truth. Living water abounds.  Thy Kingdom come, Father.