Deal bountifully with your servant,
That I may live and keep Your word.
Open my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from Your law.
I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.
My soul breaks with longing
For Your judgements at all times.
You rebuke the proud–the cursed
Who stray from Your commandments.
Remove from me reproach and contempt,
For I have kept Your testimonies.
Princes also sit and speak against me,
But Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Your testimonies also are my delight
And my counselors.

Jesus said many times, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” God told Isaiah to say to the people of Israel: “Keep on hearing, but do not understand! Keep on seeing, but do not perceive! Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes. Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return and be healed.”

I’m an Arminocalvinist myself, firmly on the fence, but as the Calvinists teach, we truly are dependent on the grace of God to open our eyes and deal bountifully with us. His testimonies are not naturally my delight, but I ask Him to make them so. I am just a poor wayfaring stranger; this world is not my home. And if I have no real home here, I am more than ever dependent on the Lord to give me an eternal home with Him.

So I pray that the same Jesus who made the deaf to hear and the blind to see will also give me vision and hearing and make my soul break with longing for His judgements. For ‘in Him is Life, and that Life is the Light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not comprehend it.” (John 1:4-5)