"Do you see what I see?"

Going to the optomitrist for an eye exam jogged thoughts of the phrase “What you see is what you get.” According to our Owner’s Manual we see things unseen through the lenses of hope. Or to put in photographic terms “What we focus on is what develops.”

Is the glass half full or half empty? I've heard it said that sometimes in the Christian life the glory is so thick you can walk on it!

Let’s face it, it can take a romantic, a clown or a fool to get their hopes up. Remember Don Quixote seeing the Dulcinea in Aldonza? Or that little boy who was so happy when he found a pile of manure on Christmas morning that his father asked why? "I'm looking for the pony that came with this!" Or that tiny little ant whose got high hopes, way up in the sky up hopes “Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant!” (Google the song and movie.)

So, what am I hoping for? What am I seeing? And what’s God got to do with it? (I can hear it now. Tina Turner singing in the background ‘What’s love got to do with it?) Do something bold today. Dare to get your hopes up!

Unsure how to? Take these scriptures as your new prescription and try ‘em on for a new outlook on life:

“For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience”. Romans 8:24-25 

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”. Hebrews 11:1 

Surprise! Surprise! Life is a surprise. Open up your eyes and see… a whole new world!!