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I want to welcome you to daily drive time devotions we're finishing our study
today in Ephesians chapter 1 day 5 verses 15 to 23 these are verses that talk
about the eyes of our heart when was the last time you had your eyes examined
today we're going to talk about different kinds of eyes different kind of
examination a pair of eyes that you may not even have known you have the eyes of
your heart Ephesians 1 15 to 17 for this reason ever since I heard about your
faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the Saints I've not stopped giving
thanks for you remembering you in my prayers I keep asking the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ the glorious Father that he may give you a spirit of wisdom and
revelation and may know him and then verse 18 says I pray that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened Paul's prayer here is that we would have wisdom that we
would have revelation who would know this mystery revealed so that the eyes of
our heart would be enlightened your eyes physical eyes can see what's going on
in the physical world but the idea here is that we also have spiritual eyes that
can see see the truths we've been talking about this week how am I going to see
that I'm rich in Jesus Christ only through the eyes of my heart and the eyes of
my heart set the direction of my life if my spiritual eyes the way I see things
the attitude through which I see life the lens through which I see life if it's
all about materialism I'm going to live as a materialistic person if it's all about
fear I'm going to live as a fearful person but if the eyes of my heart truly see
who I am in Christ it's going to change it's going to change everything and these
verses Ephesians 1 15 to 23 are in one way God's eye chart they help you and I
to evaluate our vision they help us to improve our vision Warren Wiersbie has
said about these verses as Paul prays he does not ask God to give us what we do
not have he asked God to reveal to us what we already have I remember hearing
years ago a story about the millionaire William Randolph Hearst he was looking
for some art treasures that he felt he must own and he sent an agent abroad to
find them and after months of searching that the agent reported that he finally
found the treasures they were in Mr.