THROUGH THE EYES OF ANOTHER

Have you ever seen through the eyes of another?
To see the world as they?
Among all to see, could you see yourself in their eyes?
Could you hear the words that you spoke?

What does it take to know who we are?
A mirror and thought does not suffice.
What does it take to loosen the scales over our eyes?
Our perceptions blindly skew us foolishly.

But when I looked in His eyes, I died.
For my life as I knew it was a lie.
It was in the eyes of Jesus that I could see.
No glory abounding but rather, my sins entrapping.

I saw who I was,
I was not who I told myself I was.
I was a lie, a sin, unclean.

But it was in the eyes of Jesus that I saw my hope.
There was love that I'd never known.
He saw me and loved me.
He saw me with mercy.

I can no longer be the same.
My old ways are now dead.
Because now, I have seen through the eyes of Life.
And through His love and mercy I am alive.