We need new eyes to see the way God intended us to see and understand the world around us and our place in it. We see things as they appear rather than the way God sees them. This world, broken by sin, is all we have every known and it does not compare with what God intended, what might have been or what will be. We know how to live in this kind of world intuitively but we really need the Holy Spirit to live rightly. We need that no less than Jesus needed it but we have to get our aim right. We weren't born with the right aim and we are hardly encouraged along the right path. That right aim is what Paul says and what Jesus showed it to be, pleasing God not gratifying our desires. It's not an easy journey but we aren't alone.
