I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which God has called you, the riches of the glorious inheritance in the saints.

Humans are born with two eyes, one of the five senses that allow us to know the reality of what is around us. But our eyes do not see the spiritual realities, except those that are evident through physical, visible realities. We don’t see trust or hope, but we can see evidence of joy. This is why Paul speaks of the “eyes of the heart.” It is the heart that becomes aware of the intangible spiritual realities like faith, hope and love.

I know several people who have been deprived of physical sight either at birth or through accidents. They do not witness the beauty of a sunset or the colors of flowers. Yet they have a spiritual sensitivity and an awareness that few people with physical sight have. Physical blindness is serious, but spiritual blindness is a deadly, eternal problem. It is an ultimate tragedy for a human to lack spiritual awareness of blessings of faith and hope and love.

God is gracious to provide the human creatures with numerous physical blessings and material abundance, but God has also made available the gifts of spiritual blessings. Humans need to cultivate a sensitivity to the heavenly blessings that abound in the physical world.

God of grace and blessings, open the eyes of our heart that we may see the gifts that lay beyond our physical sight.