Open Thou Mine Eyes

One of my favorite choral composers is John Rutter, and one of my favorite songs of his is Open Thou Mine Eyes. 

Open thou mine eyes and I shall see;
Incline my heart and I shall desire;
Order my steps and I shall walk
In the ways of thy commandments.

O Lord God, be thou to me a God
And beside thee let there be non else,
No other, naught else with thee.

Vouchsafe to me to worship thee and serve thee
According to thy commandments
In truth of spirit, in reverence of body,
In blessings of lips,
In private and in public.

I love the symbolism of sight that surrounds Christ and His miracles. While our physical eyes may see, our spiritual eyes can yet be blind. We see in the New Testament that Christ miraculously healed the blind of their physical blindness. Like Christ's other miracles, a physical healing happens, but the most miraculous is what follows: spiritual healing. Christ has healed the physically blind, but that miracle does not last forever. Spiritually healing us and opening our spiritual eyes is an everlasting miracle. The author of Amazing Grace understood this, I think.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.