Eye Guidance

 

 

Ps. 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye.

 I have this scripture on my desktop at work.  I love this Psalm.  It is so simple, yet so profound.  Can you imagine the intimacy you must have with the Father to be guided by His eye? 

I was thinking about what this scripture means to me.  I can relate this to my own parenting.  My husband and I have been told time after time, “You have the best kids!”.  We always agree and make sure that we say that we are blessed.  I never felt like I did anything special as a parent for my 4 daughters to be so well behaved growing up.  And they have all turned in to fabulous, women of God!

One thing we always did was make sure our daughters respected us.  We expected them to say ma’am and sir when responding to us.  We were not extra stern with them, we just commanded respect.  We instructed them in the way they should go, made sure they were involved in church and modeled good behavior in front of them.  (most of the time)  We enjoyed our girls.  I never felt like I was burdened with them.  We had fun together, but they knew, if we said they should do something or stop doing something, they better do it.  We very rarely had to spank them.  We didn’t need to. 

When I thought about this scripture in light of a parent/child relationship, I could understand it better. I have a smile on my face when I read, “I will guide you with My eye”.  My girls and I laugh about my “eye guidance”.  There were many times at church that I sat in the choir while the girls sat in the church without an adult.  I would watch them, and see them talking to each other, or cutting up.  It was then that they would get my “eye guidance”.  All I had to do was give them “the look” and they would straighten up and stop whatever they were doing. 

How many times do we miss God’s eye guidance? How many time is he looking at us, letting us know we are heading down the wrong path, giving us “the look”?  And how many times do we ignore the look and keep going? 

My own father had very expressive eyes.  He could look stern but he also had a twinkle in his eye when he was telling a joke or trying to play a trick on us.  His eyes told the story! 

Oh, to have that intimacy, as a Father to a child, with God.  To see His looks of approval, or a gleam in His eye as He puts a plan in motion for my life, or a twinkle as if He knows something but is not telling, or even that stern, “You better straighten up” look. 

Let’s press in to our Father, who, through His word, instructs us in the way we should go.  Let’s not miss searching His eyes to see where He is guiding us.  Maybe he will hear someone say, "You have the best kids!".