“Lift up your eyes with me to the Father and everything will be all right, whatever it may be” (Inner Word).
These words are an invitation from our Lord to imitate Him, to follow the same path that He walked and to walk hand in hand with Him.
The Lord did everything with His eyes fixed on the Father, because He was sent by Him to glorify Him. Many passages in the Gospel testify to this: “I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do” (Jn 17:4).
It is important to learn to look at the Father with the eyes of Jesus, in His heart; to see the Father with the loving gaze of the Son and to love Him with the love of Jesus.
“Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am”. We can apply these words to our meditation today. The Lord wants us to glorify the Father in His own way by carrying out, in union with Him, the work that God has entrusted to us.
This will be possible if we do not rely on our own limited human strength but on God’s strength; if, like our Lord, we see ourselves as people whom the Father has called and sent into this world to bear witness to His love by being the light of the world.
To look to the Father with Jesus is to be totally united to the holy will of our Father, so that it becomes true nourishment for us (cf. Jn 4:34).
If we follow this path with our Lord, everything we do will turn out well, because we will never lose sight of our heavenly Father. Even in the hours of the greatest suffering and tribulation, Jesus’ gaze, and therefore ours, remains fixed on the Father. No matter what happens, we will know that we are protected by the love of our heavenly Father.