Ocular Transplant

"If I could see you more, then I could love You more."

~Rivers & Robots (I did a video of this song here)

It seems a little blasphemous at first, when applied to God, but it's totally true that the less you see and interact with your friends (even your closest friends), the less you are able to love them. Now, there are times when you haven't seen a friend in forever and would die just to give them a big hug and hang out for a couple of hours, but the reason this kind of longing differs from the longing we feel for God can be explain in two ways:

1) When we long to "hang out" with and talk to God, we never have to go anywhere or sacrifice anything but time in order to do it. As for anyone else, being able to converse and interact with them can never be guaranteed, and certainly is not as instantaneous as our connection to God's perfect WiFi!

2) Our love for God should be so much more than friendly feelings and emotional conversations or worship sessions. If us loving God means we live and work and breathe and sacrifice everything for Him on a daily basis regardless of how well we can see or perceive Him, then being able to see Him more and know and understand His amazing attributes will only add to our ability to love Him by allowing us to absolutely enjoy whatever calling it is that He has placed on our lives.

So there is also an aspect of seeking God that is just as important. If we tried to do everything we could (e.g. placed ourselves in beautiful settings, trained our minds to "think only good thoughts," memorized a million Psalms, etc.) to find God more during the hard times, then it would definitely help, but it would also fail. It would help because God desires us to put effort into our faith, adding to it things like knowledge, godliness, and love, but it would fail because relying on our own ability to see God is futile. God wants us to seek Him and ask that He transplant our human eyes to give us heavenly eyes of wisdom and divine appreciation. Only then can we be assured of the hope of glory promised to those who believe.

"The more I seek you, the more I find you; the more I find you, the more I love you"

~Kari Jobe