Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
The ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see
-Brandon Heath - Give Me Your Eyes
 
Recently while traveling I stumbled across a song on my iPod that's been there a while.  I downloaded it because my son suggested that it was a song I might like and though I've listened to it before, for some reason this time something was so compelling about the lyrics, especially the refrain, that I found myself listening to it again and again,  through most of three different flights and three different airports.

The songwriter gets us to speak a desire to take on the physical attributes of Jesus; his eyes, arms and heart, that we might be able to see, touch and feel the broken of this world through His love for humanity, especially for those who feel empty, lost and alone.  After listening to the song awhile I wondered why we're not able to see, touch and feel these people already.  Of course the answer is, we're the ones who are broken, and we're not able to see this because we're often blinded by our own ego.
 
Ego literally means "the I" or "I myself," and without getting into a long psychological definition, it simply is that part of our thinking that makes us believe that we're distinctive, or different from others.  This grade of ego leads us to an exaggerated sense of self-importance.  We begin to believe that it is by our own power and strength that we are able to sustain our lives and everything in it. 
 
The problem with this thinking is that it leads us away from community, which is how God intended for us to live and how God is revealed to us; through love for one another.  So, our ego leads us away from God, away from His light and towards the darkness.
 
A friend of mine recently said, "The ego is the pathway for darkness into our hearts."  He was right.  But how do we change this thinking?  How do we move toward Light in our lives?
 
When we make our relationship with Jesus the priority of our lives, we begin to see with new eyes, we reach out with new arms and we love with a new heart.  It is then that we awakened to the Truth.  That God, who is the Creator of all things, has been watching us, holding us and loving us all along.  And with this awakening, our lives become filled with abundance, we find our purpose and we are no longer alone.  We live in the Light.