Living Life Through Your Eyeballs

One of the most wonderful things in life is when your three year old child jumps out of the bathtub dripping wet, soap suds still in the hair and runs through the house squealing with delight. They are free and feeling good and there is not a thought in the world that they are buck naked.

There is no condemning conscience telling them to cover up, stop looking so silly or you should be embarrassed . The ever present third eye that scrutinizes, judges and scolds is no where to be found. The child is free to live life through their eyeballs and it is a beautiful innocence!

Those encounters stop us dead in our tracks because we are envious of their freedom. Years ago we stopped living life through our eyeballs, wide-eyed and full of joy, and started performing for the judging crowd. We see ourselves from the perspective of the accusing crowd and do our best to please them. Do I measure up? Do you like me now? Please don't see my flaws!

The first chapter of Ephesians tells us that God's big plan before the foundation of the world was for us to be holy and blameless before him in Christ. "Holy and blameless before him" is not talking about being able to stand before God, ready for a white-gloved inspection. It is talking about something far more beautiful and relational.

The child running around the house in the innocent state of self-acceptance is holy and blameless before his family.

The daughter that climbs into the lap of her father as he tries to eat his supper, opens wide her mouth like a baby bird waiting for a worm and actually believes she will get a share. She is holy and blameless before her father.

The son who cups his mother's cheeks with his little hands, rubs his nose on hers and sticks his fingers in her mouth and giggles as he pulls them away while she pretends to try to bite them. He is holy and blameless before his mother.

This is the freedom and joy - LIFE - that God has always wanted for us to have with him and others! This purpose for us was so important that he never once left it up to us to pull if off. Nope! He chose us in Christ to have this quality of life with him and this was always his chosen path.

Why?

Because this is the kind of freedom that Jesus has always had with the Father and Spirit throughout all eternity. This face to face freedom before each other is the womb out of which we were created and for which we were birthed to live in.

No good mother and father has a child only to abandon her. No, they take responsibility for their daughter and do everything it takes to raise her up and fulfill their dreams for her. So it is with God! He created us for a purpose and has provided everything needed to make it so.

Think about it, you are God's child and he loves you! Run around the house! Open your mouth wide and expect him to feed you! Crawl into his lap and experience intimacy with him. Banish the thought he is judging and condemning you and rest like a child in his never ending love for you.

The Father chose you, the Son has fulfilled your adoption and the Spirit is calling you to be a child again!