A Single Eye

I want to share with you a little further on the genius of having a single eye.  It is an amazing power for intimacy with our God.

Have you ever heard of having dove’s eyes? I have been told that a dove’s sight can only focus in one direction at a time, giving them singleness of vision or a single eye. Imagine not being distracted by that which is in the periphery! Undivided vision, an enviable trait for the Christian sojourner.

Well in Song of Songs 1:15, the Beloved states to the Shulamite, “Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold, you are fair! You have dove’s eyes.”  He was attracted to and calling forth from her a level of undistracted devotion.

Jesus as our Beloved is drawn to our singleness of eye because this makes us a bride rather than just a believer.  Only love will cause us to cast aside all that hinders our pursuit of God.

If your eye be single,
your whole body will be full of Light.
Matt. 6:22

I have had a season of, what would seem to be, extreme distraction.  But I wonder if it has more been a training of my eye?  A muscle is strengthened through resistance. I believe God has been supplying ample opposition to make me hungry.  My levels of desire have been stirred in the wake of an onslaught of interference.

Then I enter the Vatican and He leads me to experience a single eye.  I walked through to experience one focus and one vision.  It wasn’t about the Vatican or the art but the attention on what He was on in that moment.

Now, I don’t for one second believe that I will ever muster up some amazing honed focus on the Lord.  I just won’t, though I have tried.  But what I can tell you is that Jesus lived with singleness of vision and He still wants to today.  He wants me, a vessel for His focus and attention on the Father.

“Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing
of Himself, unless it is something
He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does,
these things the Son also does in like manner.”
John 5:19 

He was able to walk through this world focused on and doing the things He saw His Father do. Today He desires to do the same in me.  I yield to His desire in this and look forward to His fulfillment.