"The Power of Seeing What God Sees" | May 10, 2026 | Ps Christina Lowery

There's something about Mondays that can drain the life right out of us. The alarm clock feels like an enemy. The inbox overflows. The to-do list stretches endlessly ahead. We've all felt it - that heavy weight of facing another week, another day, another ordinary moment that feels anything but sacred.

But what if our Mondays were never meant to be separate from our spirituality? What if the very work we do, the people we encounter, and the seemingly mundane moments we experience are actually sacred ground - places where God's kingdom is waiting to break through?

Work as Worship

In the beginning, God designed work and worship to be inseparable. The Hebrew word avad is used interchangeably for both concepts throughout Scripture. This isn't just a linguistic curiosity - it's a divine blueprint. Our work was always meant to be an act of worship, a way we partner with God to bring His kingdom into the world.

The challenge isn't that we lack opportunities to make a difference. The challenge is that we often lack the eyes to see them.

Vocational Imagination: Seeing Through God's Eyes

Vocational imagination is the capacity to see what's already in your hands - right now, right in front of you - the way God sees it. It's not about waiting for God to bring you what you think you need. It's about recognizing that God wants to use what you already have.

Moses understood this lesson at the burning bush. When God called him to rescue the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt, Moses protested with a litany of "what ifs." What if they don't believe me? What if they don't listen? What if I fail?

God's response was simple yet profound: "What is that in your hand?"

Moses looked down and saw a shepherd's staff - a simple tool for moving sheep. But God saw something entirely different. God saw a staff that would part the Red Sea, bring water from a rock, and demonstrate His power before Pharaoh.

Moses saw a staff that moved sheep. God saw a staff that would open the sea.

The Mother Who Saw Something Special

Long before Moses stood at the edge of the Red Sea, before anyone knew his name, there was a woman holding river reeds and pitch, making a basket. Her name was Jochebed, and she is one of the most overlooked women in Scripture.

Jochebed was Moses' mother, living in a horrifying time when Pharaoh had decreed that every Hebrew baby boy be murdered and thrown into the Nile River. She had no burning bush, no staff, no direct word from God - just a baby and an empire that wanted him dead.

Exodus 2 tells us that when Jochebed looked at her son, she saw that he was special. The Hebrew word used here is tov - the same word God used in Genesis when He looked at all He had created and declared it "good." Tov means beautiful, valuable, and worthy of care.

Hebrews 11:23 reveals the secret of her sight: "It was by faith that Moses' parents hid him for three months when he was born. They saw that God had given them an unusual child."

This wasn't maternal instinct. This was spirit-enabled vision. Jochebed could see tov in her son because she was looking through the eyes of faith rather than the eyes of fear.

Three Steps to Kingdom Impact

Jochebed's story reveals a powerful pattern for bringing God's kingdom into our everyday lives:

1. See What God Sees

When everyone else saw Hebrew baby boys as threats to be eliminated, Jochebed saw divine favor. She saw tov - something good, beautiful, and worthy of protection.

Who are the people in your life that God is asking you to see differently? What situations appear ordinary but carry extraordinary potential? What work seems insignificant but might be the very thing God wants to use?

Faith trains your eyes to see what God sees - the people around you, the work you're doing, the ordinary moments everyone else walks right past.

2. Act on What You See

Seeing is essential, but it's not enough. Faith without works is dead. Jochebed didn't just recognize that her son was special - she acted on it. She got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch.

She didn't wait for better materials or a better situation. She picked up what was available and started weaving.

When God gives you eyes to see something tov, He's not just giving you a show. He's saying, "Act now. In faith, act now."

Maybe it's stopping to pray with someone in a parking lot. Maybe it's taking a coworker's kids for the afternoon. Maybe it's speaking an encouraging word to a student sitting alone. These moments may seem insignificant, but Zechariah 4:10 reminds us: "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin."

3. Release the Outcome to God

This is perhaps the hardest part. After Jochebed wove the basket and placed her son inside, she had to put it in the river and let it go. She couldn't follow the basket. She couldn't steer it. She couldn't protect him from what was downstream.

She released control of the outcome.

What Jochebed didn't know was that this baby floating away from her would one day stand before Pharaoh and demand freedom for her people. She didn't know he would part the Red Sea or lead an entire nation through the wilderness.

She simply saw, acted, and released.

Your Monday Mission

Every single day, God places tov opportunities in front of you - in your workplace, in your home, when you're running errands, sitting in a cafeteria, or attending a meeting.

The biggest enemy of seeing these moments is busyness. We rush past the extraordinary disguised as ordinary. We miss the divine appointments hidden in our daily routines.

But today is an invitation to slow down, to look with eyes of faith, and to ask: What is in my hand right now? What has God placed right in front of me?

Is it a keyboard you type on all day? Is it a classroom full of students? Is it your children? Is it a hammer on a job site? Is it a conversation waiting to happen?

Whatever it is, God wants to use it. He doesn't need you to be someone else or somewhere else. He needs what you bring, right here, right now.

See what God sees. Act on it with what you have. Release the outcome to Him.

Don't despise your small beginnings. God rejoices to see the work begin.

Your Monday is not a day to survive - it's a mission field to transform.