Open My Eyes

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” (Psalm 119:18)

The request by David to “Open thou mine eyes” is a spiritual request. The eyes of an unquickened spirit will read scripture as little more than a catalogue of dos and don'ts. But an awakened spirit knows that something more is there, even if it doesn’t know what. So David is asking God to reveal these things to him.

Only a child of God would recognize or at least anticipate wondrous, powerful and glorious things from the law of God. Sin and unrighteousness dread it, and in fact, are repulsed by it.

For example, when the devils that possessed the two Gergesenites met Jesus they cried, “What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?”

This is the same reaction the unrepentant have upon reading the word of God. “What does this have to do with us? Why are you tormenting us with this law?”

The child of God knows that only wondrous things come of the law of God, and want to see, hear, learn and do as much of it as they can.

Bill Hitchcock