Monday, March 30, 2026
When Jesus performed “miracles,” he “looked up to heaven.” Before he raised Lazarus from the dead, we’re told Jesus looked up. This image is of a beggar, pleading to a capricious “upstairs” entity to get you out of jail. Baal never answers. No bail.
Perhaps the illustration of “looking up” is more in line with closing your eyes and going within. In modern language, we call this a second thought. Jesus contemplated. Jesus closed his physical eyes and went into the “eyes of provision.” Pro means before; vision means a different kind of seeing imbued with passionate desire.
Jesus never trusted his eyes nor physical senses, yet he came to his senses. What looked like depleting resources and death were unreal to him.
When we drive, our eyes tell us the earth is flat. For all intents and purposes, the earth is flat. Go to Kansas to convince yourself of this “fact.” Knowing better is realizing you cannot fall off the earth, despite what your eyes tell you—in much the same way as you cannot turn off gravity. Each step is falling forward, and gravity is there to prop you up. So, looking up to heaven is remembering the earth is spherical and gravity is always “on.”
Do you look to your faith or to what appears as “not there”—lack of time, lack of money, lack of energy?
Provision. What you truly desire is never physical, but disguised physicality. You truly desire freedom, love, peace, health, joy, and ease. But that’s like desiring gravity or for the horizon to continue.
Despite what logic and your eyes tell you, know better. Eventually, your mind and eyes acquiesce to their limit. Your eyes of faith are limitless. Things are “looking up.” You know better than doom. Don’t be fooled by physical senses; come to your senses.