We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! (1 Cor. 13:12 MSG)
In the last two years, it had become more and more difficult to wear my contact lenses, until finally I couldn’t wear them at all. I had purchased cheap glasses to wear at night, but I ended up wearing them all the time. Because my eyesight is how I make my living as an editor, I decided to invest in a nice pair of glasses with Neurolens. (This blog post isn’t a commercial for Neurolens, but I do want to mention how the lenses are designed to help realign your eyes, and they work well for people like me who are in front of a computer screen all day.)
A recent trip to the optometrist came with a surprise—I needed reading glasses. Why this came as a surprise, I don’t know. For several months prior, when I worked on editing projects, I would increase the size of the document on my screen so that I could catch all those pesky punctuation marks that were in the wrong place. The increase was gradual—first 110 percent, then 120, then 140. In fact, the funny thing is, things became blurry so gradually that it didn’t even register with me that it was happening.
When I put on my new glasses, I could immediately tell the difference. (And in case you’re wondering, I did not have to enlarge this document I’m typing in as much as I would have before my new glasses.) Everything looked clearer, sharper.
When we look at things through Jesus’s eyes, we see more clearly. We notice things (and people) we wouldn’t have noticed before. We see him at work in our lives with new clarity, which will help us draw closer to him.
What is Jesus calling you to see more clearly today? With his help, our spiritual eyes can be opened so that we can see him and pursue him more fully.
Dear Jesus, please open our spiritual eyes so that we can see you at work in our lives and in those around us. Help us to see things we haven’t seen before or to see old things in a new way. Amen.
I almost didn’t recognize the quote from the message which I often think about. “For now we see through a glass darkly,” Glass making has improved since the first century. But I don’t really see myself been using a mirror, and I don’t really see others accurately either. But, I especially I fail to see who Christ is and all that he has provided for me. I try to take care control of my own life and then end up wearing myself out, rather than resting in Him.
I do the same thing. We are always learning and growing in Christ!