A Blinding Revelation
When I was young I worked at McDonalds. One week I showed up at work without my glasses. I made more mistakes that day than ever before. My manager requested that I go home and not come back without my glasses. It seems that I couldn’t think straight without them–not to mention I was an emotional wreck.
I was in college and having constant headaches, dizziness, and frustration while trying to take notes off the board in class–and my grades were showing it. A trip to the eye doctor showed that I needed bifocals.
After my son was born I had an eye doctor appointment. They told me that the headaches I was experiencing were the result of the hormones altering my sight. Then they gave me new glasses. The next day I returned because I couldn’t bear them. They hurt my eyes and seemed to cause worse headaches. This time it was their fault–they had gotten the prescription backwards.
Today I realized that I couldn’t read small print. In fact I had been avoiding it for weeks. Once again I have been unable to think and my emotions have been off kilter. I thought something was really wrong. I just need new glasses.
How is your vision? Are you finding that your senses seem off kilter? Are you emotionally overwrought? Stressed?
Maybe it is time to have your vision checked–spiritually speaking. Are you looking through His eyes or through the worlds?
34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. 36Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you.” Luke 11:34-36
Lord, be our vision. Help us to see things through your eyes and not our own or that of the world. Lord fill us with Your light and Your glory so that we may be a light to others.
Wow, a great big amen to this. God is leading me with His eyes right now, due to my diabetes my vision is very bad. Thanks for sharing this, bless you.
got my glasses in sixth grade. can hardly see a thing without them. spiritually, I get near-sighted when I forget what a big God I serve and what He can accomplish. I can only see my present circumstances and worries. God places the glasses of future hope on my face and I can see the promise of heaven and the good He will surely bring. I get far-sighted when I get caught up in wanting to do “great things,” and forget about the ministry right under my nose- family, friends, neighbors…
But thanks be to God, I am no longer blind, and though I only see dimly now, one day I will see Him face to face!
by the way, i only lasted a week at McDonalds. Burned a whole bunch of apple pies:)
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Heather,
Great post. It is facinating to me that the eye leads to the soul. Have you ever looked into someones eyes and felt evil. Or have you looked into someones eyes and just knew they were a believer?? Amazing.
Wonderful thought…I have had trouble with fine print, probably just due to being in my 40’s…and I keep postponing getting reading glasses!
I love the analogy of just getting fresh vision from the Lord to renew us…blessings!
Amen Heather, I always need my spiritual glasses checked.
My dog just ate my glasses (seriously) and I then I sit down and read your post and I just have to laugh and shake my head.
Great post, Heather.
As sick as I am about my glasses being destroyed, I need to worry more about my spiritual glasses.
I have to admit that I am very short-sighted sometimes when it comes to His will. I sometimes only see my own needs before I see the needs of others…I think that I need to put on His ‘focal’ more often.
Thank you for the reminder, Heather.