The stress of life can take the light from your eyes, but the Lord can restore it. Day 20

“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭13:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I have been with animals and people when they died. One thing that is consistent is that at the moment of death you can immediately see the light of life gone from their eyes. It’s a stunning phenomenon to experience. It happens as quickly as flipping the switch to turn the light off. One second there’s light; the next second there is none.

I’ve also seen another phenomenon associated with the eyes, but this one is among the living. While not to the degree seen at the point of death, I have seen living people with “dead” eyes.

Sometimes the cause of these eyes with no sparkle is physical in nature; but many times I have seen these dead eyes the result of great strain, pressure, sorrow, grief, and so forth. Although the person’s heart is still beating and they are still breathing, the spark of life is receding and you can see it in their eyes.

Because of our advanced technology we can immediately see people in all kinds of stressful situations. You see when their eyes are terrified, when they are angry, when they are despairing, when they are in shock, and when they have lost all hope.

On the other hand, we can see when people are full of hope, expectation, joy, excitement, and so on, by the “sparkle” in their eyes.

Ezra, in speaking about the Lord’s mercy to His people said this:

“And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.”

‭‭Ezra‬ ‭9:8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Ezra praises the Lord for bringing back the light in the eyes of the people in bondage by bringing them back to their land.

In our opening portion from Psalms today we see that David is acknowledging to the Lord that he has lost the light in his eyes. He feels hopeless, helpless, and near death, and is asking the Lord to bring back reason for hope and joy (enlightening his eyes).

Let’s face it, we often lose a lot of our life in our living. In other words, the things we go through, the things we experience, our toiling and striving, can literally diminish the light of our life (the life force) to the point that it is flickering, almost extinguished. The good news is that the One Who originally gave us our life spark, can and will rekindle the flame. You don’t have to go on a moment longer with dead eyes!

For today let us know and understand what David knew:

The stress of life can take the light from your eyes, but the Lord can restore it.

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