I’m not good at mental gymnastics so it is confusing to be told I am to ‘fix my eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.’

Surely if God gave me eyes, He gave them to me to fix on the visible. Sight is precious and the things I look at are precious.

An interior decorator spoke with me once about choosing colours. He said, ‘Go and look into a flower that you especially like. Whatever colours you see blended in it are in perfect harmony. Look at them. Then feel confident in applying a proportionate mix.’

Here was a man of the world pointing me to the perfect balance of creation, to the One who knew how to use a paint box. And always since that brief encounter I have looked at flowers.

The more I look, the more lovely they grow and even tiny weed flowers fill me with a sense of wonder. They also fill me with awe and the thought of God.

So I fix my eyes on the visible – the running creek, the granite rocks, the grapevine by the fence, and flowers, always the flowers.

And isn’t it odd, Jesus was the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley? Then He said of Himself, I am the vine, the water, and the rock.

Maybe that is what He meant, look at my creation long enough and hard enough and you will look past the visible to the invisible. You won’t see it, you’ll see Me!

So now, what was Paul saying about fixing my eyes on what is unseen? He said ‘we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is not seen is eternal.’ 2nd Corinthians 4:18.

Elizabeth Price, Team Writer with Just A Minute reprice@dragnet.com.au