Be thou My Vision

It has been on my heart lately to have the vision of Christ. I was reminded today of the old hymn, Be thou My Vision. The first verse simply says

"Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;

Nought be all else to me, save that Thou art-

Thou my best thought, by day or by night,

Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light."

It has made me think, is Christ my vision? Is he my sight?

The verse that goes with this particular hymn is Luke 12:34, "For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also."

I realize that I don't always put Christ as my sight, and sadly, He is not always the treasure that I seek. So, how would my outlook change, my day change, my life change, if I had a constant desire to let Christ be my sight?

So, before being able to change my outlook, I need to establish where my sight is. And I have realized that I have put my sight on worldly appearance. I look at the outward as my opinion of others too often, and I don't use the sight of Christ.

What do I need to do about this? Glad you asked =)

I have decided that I am going to take time to define beauty in the sight of Christ. He is going to be my vision. He is going to be the opinion I use to define beauty. But where do you begin? Where do you start to define the idea of beauty?

This is something I have been praying about for a while, and I keep coming back to the same verses:

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit."
Galatians 5:22-25

These verses are familiar to all. And I often time over look them and do not recognize them as much as I should.

So, for ten days, I am going to take the time to dig in and define these. They are beautiful in the eyes of Christ, so if I took the time to make my idea of beauty focused on these, I will see beauty as Christ does.

As I strive to look for beauty inwardly, I am going to go without makeup. I too often rely on that as a covering and a mask to make me feel better about my looks...but that is not beauty to Christ.

I will do my best to post every day as I take the time to go over these beautiful verses.

This is my challenge: To let Christ be my vision.