Looking

 

When I taught preschool I used cardboard cut out magnifying glasses to teach the children to focus in on an object and truly study it.  

It amazed me how much better able to focus on the details even if they were not really lenses.

It helped them learn to “look” better.

In Moses 8:27 we read that “Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord”.

The roots of the word find include “discovered” and “encountered”. 

Think of that! 

Noah discovered and encountered grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Both of those words have such an incredible interactive element to them.

The very Lord who knew him and all his failings perfectly, had divine goodness shining for Noah in His eyes.

And the very same Lord sees us and all of our failings perfectly, but has divine goodness and power for us as well.

But we have to discover it for ourselves.

We have to search and learn to focus. 

We get to encounter it in so many beautiful and holy ways, but we have to be looking.  

Because that’s how we find things.