Having the eyes of your heart enlightened

“Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.” (Eph. 1:18 ESV)

Having an epiphany from God

Have you ever had an epiphany, which is the sudden realization about the nature or meaning of something? Perhaps you were struggling to find an important answer and suddenly you got a flash of understanding that seem to come out of nowhere. Sometimes God opens the “eyes of hearts” as he did for Elisha’s servant, enabling Him to see the invisible  chariots of fire that were all around him.

“Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” (2 Kings 6:17 ESV)

Are you blind to things of God?

“Do you have eyes but fail to see!” (Mark 8:18a NIV)

“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.” (Eph. 4:18 ESV)

Ask God to open your eyes of understanding to behold wondrous things in His Word

“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” (Psalm 119:18 ESV)

God opens eyes to turn from darkness to light

“To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’” (Acts 26:18 ESV)

Therefore…

“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Cor. 4:6 ESV)