What Lies Beneath

When we look, we look at the surface. When we see, we see in depth. By moving from surface cares to authentic cares, we attain a pure heart. We live in an age of looking. But to see is to go beyond the surface of things. That takes us to a deeper level of concern and deeper level of caring. Faith for many is equated with sight. Not physical sight, but internal sight. To see is also to believe or to walk by faith. Seeing is also closely linked with seeking. When our seeking is true, we see the Truth. When our seeking is false, we flee from the Truth and all that really brings us face-to-face with the Truth. That is why some people seek and never find. To set one’s hopes in what is passing and impermanent is also to look at things only on the surface. The more we chase the tangible, the more the intangible slips through our fingers, which is why ‘seeing’ is an important part of a real conversion of heart. We can train our sight to look at merely externals or to look deeper and beneath. Vision is like a laser that removes the cataract that obstructs sight. When Jesus said, “Look at the lilies in the field, they neither toil or spin, but even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”, he was drawing our attention to real sight. He called us to see the universe and us as protected by the mantle of God. If we begin to see, we will seek and find. God who is invisible cannot be experienced by those who only look but can be experienced by those who ‘see’ in all things not appearances, the miracle of life

Source: Economic Times, 31/10/2018