Scripture Devotion
Guided with an eye — the leading of someone close enough to catch your glance.
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
Reflection
Three verbs of guidance stack up here, and they get more intimate as they go: instruct, teach, guide. Instruction is information; teaching is formation; but the last one is the tender one — guide thee with mine eye. Not with a shove, not with a shouted command from a distance, but with a look. The guidance of a glance is the guidance of someone close enough to catch your eye. That's a particular kind of leading. It requires the one being guided to be watching the guide's face — attentive enough to catch the look. A Tuesday full of decisions is met not with a distant rulebook but with a nearness that guides by eye, for those close enough to keep looking up and catching it.