2023-11-22 A Meditation on Eagle Eyed Vision

“10 I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.” (Ho 12:10 ESV)

Of all that we do ask, presence of mind, responsibility unto duty, reasonableness, the eagle vision is a request some answer and find not welcome. People are suddenly trapped in bondages spiritual, and this is seen by the eagle’s eye. For, any warrior of a future war has occur to him or her the request that they be “sane”, “cogent”, “appropriate”, and “reasonable”. But none of us are these things in all matters. In some things, we are zany and either inspired or derelict.

Some will fall on the wrong side of history. Some will be cold when the word on the street, the spirit of the times, is something a bit warmer. Some will suit up and confirm themselves that they are rational actors, when in fact on some playing field all are reactive and marauding according to an impulse rather than a clear thought.

Empty platitudes, then, are the flipside to a creed or to logical assents. We assent via word and that word, spoken, phrased, evoked, does help us to see new terrain, around a corner, into a vast spiritual sacrament. That sacrament is the hopes distilled; nothing is more punitive nor deadening than to forbid free expression. For we share in our hearers experience. We are a group-thinking mob or cohort. Even war is between gents or ladies with some respect for the respective heads of the enemy.

Therefore the eagle eye practices a no-time-to-delay race to abide near to the meager weak and the suffering, to bless, knowing that all are suddenly hospital cases upon the arrival of a genuine man or woman who cares. The put-together new believer is already approached with a thought or a confession, with a plea or a need. Because we flock like bears to honey to the one who is composed.

And the eagle eye believes in invention, that in a Reformation or a Counter-Reformation, new ideas are discovered, ideas hard to arrive at by reasoned steps of thought, but rather Inspired and New, the doctrine that tells the sinner to accept a free gift, the doctrine that says all are trapped in original sin, the doctrine that says we are qualified and made Good by His death on the Cross. That this is a deeper vow and allegiance than any litany of practical morality. Mores, trends, customs; these fall away upon the experience wakefully of being loved. The new horizon and sunrise. The soul played with and made supple, touched, responsive and fluid, elastic and malleable. Something not originating in Man’s hard work but rather in God’s curious and leveled performance: He approaches on our level, no false humility but genuine being there. We instead scoff and call all such patronage a guise secretly proud or false. But God genuinely needed us just as we need Him. He genuinely had His prayers lived out in the vicarious guise of His people, the guise of us.

Eagle eye the trooper is not chagrined by a large-scale slow race, hindrances dispel, routine backwaters do not linger in mind. Our happiness is assured from On High. Our strange peace with the slowness of the race, with the call to diligence and to patience, our secret places of utter joy, absence of contempt for others, strange Peace even though to an observer we are most of all to be pitied. Yes, this illegal level of joy, of march, of composure Believes: that Tomorrow is ours to live into and to own. That Christ will not be taken away from us.