New Eyes

Proverbs Daily is a reader-supported publication. All posts are free, but all donations help spread the message. When you see the word “upgrade,” you’re simply invited to help me make the sacred positively contagious…thank you in advance for becoming a free or paid subscriber.Proverbs 30:3“I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.”Do you know anybody like this? “Oh, I can’t really sing.” Then they grab the microphone… and absolutely tear the house down.Or the musician who says, “Man, I’m just playing around…” Then plays something so beautiful everybody in the room stops talking.I love people like that.Then there’s the opposite. The people who know… everything. No matter the subject. No matter the question. They already have the answer.See… the person with an answer for everything has quietly closed the book.Then we meet Agur. He opens Proverbs 30:3 by saying:“I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.” (NLT)That’s funny… because what comes next is some of the deepest wisdom in the entire book.It’s almost like somebody saying, “I don’t really have much…” then stepping forward and tearing the roof off the mutha.Maybe that’s the point.The people most capable of learning are usually the ones least convinced they’ve arrived.And Agur isn’t only humble about human wisdom. He’s humble about having God figured out.Maybe he wasn’t confessing ignorance. Maybe he was protecting wonder.Because the moment we reduce God to something we’ve already mastered… we stop meeting God with new eyes.Now, I don’t believe we know nothing. Look at you. Your heart has been beating your entire life without asking permission. Your lungs know how to breathe. Your body knew how to weave itself together in your mother’s womb.There is ancient knowledge moving through you right now.The question isn’t whether you know anything. The question is whether you’re still open enough to recognize what life has been teaching you all along.Wonder isn’t the absence of knowledge. It’s the refusal to let knowledge become ordinary.Maybe wisdom begins each morning by saying, “Teach me something I couldn’t see yesterday.”🔥 REMEMBERCertainty closes the book. Wonder turns the page.🙏🏽 PRAYERLord, give me new eyes for what I already know.🎯 TODAY’S CHALLENGEChoose one familiar thing today: your breath, your body, your work, your neighborhood, or someone you love. Spend two uninterrupted minutes observing it as though you’re encountering it for the first time. Write down one thing you noticed with new eyes.About the AuthorFred Lynch is a creative communicator, author, and Christian Hip Hop pioneer. To learn more about Fred and what he’s up to now…click here or you can find him in all the socials by searching the handle: heyfredlynch📱 Experience Proverbs Daily by Subscribing!Ready to receive daily wisdom directly on your phone?Go to proverbsdaily.org for the app or just click that Subscribe button right now! Get full access to Hey Fred Lynch! at heyfredlynch.substack.com/subscribe