Sarah Kroger sings a beautiful cover of ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ that brings us to worship.
The song she chose for this video is incredibly special to so many of us. It was written by Paul Baloche back in 1997. It has been a favorite in our churches for a very long time.
The words are inspired from Ephesians 1:18. It is a simple prayer where we ask God to help us see Him clearly. We want to see His power and love in our daily lives. It reminds us to focus on His holiness when the world gets too loud and busy.
Sarah Kroger is a well known worship leader who lives in Nashville. She actually grew up in Florida in a very musical family. Her path to singing was not always easy though. She struggled a lot with shyness and bullying when she was younger. She even stopped singing for a long time because of her struggle with anxiety. But she found her voice again at a youth conference when she connected with Jesus. Her music has touched many people all over the world. She even got a GMA Dove Award nomination for her beautiful work in Christian music.
I felt so calm and comforted when I listened to this recording. It really moved my heart to say the same prayer as she sung.
What an absolutely beautiful prayer this is. Isn’t it? You see a true believer’s focus has to be completely lifted off the heavy things of this temporary earth and fixed right up there on the things of heaven. We desperately need that spiritual hunger burning inside of our souls always wanting to know the sheer magnitude of God’s glory just a little bit more each and every day.
That is exactly what the Word of God is talking about in Ephesians 1:18 when it says “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.”
Let us ask the Lord to rip the blinders off our spiritual vision today so we can stop looking down at our worldly problems and start staring straight up at the glorious riches of our King!
WATCH: ‘Open the Eyes of My Heart’ Cover by Sarah Kroger
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