Messiah Eyes: How to See God’s Hand in Our Lives - Jeremy Gimpel

King Solomon gave us the key to understand how to build this world. In Proverbs 9 verse 10 says like this. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Hashem. Wisdom begins with your with perception not with fear. Seeing Hashem in everything. You remove Hashem from your vision, the wisdom collapses. Families break down, societies crumble. We see it today in the west where the very instinct for life is withering. The birth rates are not even enough to sustain civilization in most European countries and even the United States of America is right on the edge there. The more secular a society becomes, they just stop making children. And your ah when you see the world with spiritual vision everything falls into place. Marriage works, raising children works, communities flourish because we see beyond the moment into the eternal. Our sages crystallize one of the most profound ideas and phrases in all of Jewish history. It's inot and it says like this. everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven. Again, fear is shay. So everything is in the hands of heaven except the ability to see heaven. If you translate the word ya into fear, you're missing the much deeper message. Yura is to see. So so much of our life is out of our control. our health, our wealth, our circumstances. It's all in God's hands. The one thing we have is how we see it. Do we see life as random suffering or a part of a larger plan? Do we see our challenges as meaningless or as the sculpting hand of God making us stronger, humbler, closer to him? That choice, that perception is your shami. That is all that God asks of us to let him into our life to see his hand at work in our world. To open our eyes and to see the world with Messiah eyes, with Messiah eyes, to see the godliness in everything. That's all that God is asking us to do. By then, of course, you'll want to keep the Torah. Of course, you'll want to follow his commands. You'll want to live with him in your life. All we though can do is actually activate our soul through our eyes and see the world with godly eyes. To see godliness in everything is to stand in awe and to know that we're partners with Hashem in bringing redemption to the world. So right now Israel is at a crossroads. What are we going to do with Gaza? Will we have yacht mind? Will we have the ability to see God at work? Will we have the ability to see this as a part of a historic process? Or will our leaders look at reality in godlessness, make choices based on seemingly rational statistical analyses, and if we take God out of the picture, we will have no wisdom, and without a doubt make mistakes. And right now, the leaders of Israel are saying, "We don't want to take over Gaza. We're looking for another Arab entity that will run Gaza. That's not the Palestinian Authority, and that's not the Hamas." And I'm sorry, but Gaza is a part of the God-given land of Israel. And Israel shouldn't give it away to anyone. It should declare sovereignty. It should be under Israel's supervision. Any other plan is doomed to fail. But we're being called right now to see reality with Messiah eyes and choose what is truly best for Israel in the region. The stronger Israel becomes, the more of its promised land it controls, the more peace and prosperity will be brought to all peoples in the region and ultimately all peoples in the world. And just like that, it's true for our own personal lives. And in so many ways, that's what the Torah is all about. Shamine seeing heaven's hand on earth and responding to every interaction to every encounter with that perspective.