I have no idea how long it’s been since my eyesight has been 20/20, if it has ever been that good. My dad, my mom and my sister all wear glasses or contacts. I thought I would be the only one of us that wouldn’t need any help with my eyesight. I believed that…until about three weeks ago. It didn’t happen with a certain birthday, or some problem, but one day I just noticed I had a hard time reading some things on the TV and some smaller print on the computer. Now, I’m not saying that I need large print books or coke-bottle bottom glasses, but I need to do something. I can’t see like I used to see. And it bothers me….a lot!
I didn’t realize how frustrating it would be to not see everything clearly. Until I realized how frustrated a Christian or a church can become when we don’t see the things God sees. We may be able to see the things God sees, but we may not see them as clearly as God does. So what do we do whenever our spiritual eyesight is poor? What do we do whenever we know that God sees things better than we do?
Over the next few weeks, leading up to January 2011, I will mention a few solutions for poor spiritual eyesight. But the obvious place to begin is with faith. Above everything else, we must trust that God knows things we may never know, and that God is in control of things we may never understand. And God does in fact see things clearly that may be blurry to us….at least for a while. No matter what we see, know or understand, we need to trust God unconditionally. If we can trust God to provide eternal salvation for our souls, we must learn to trust God with some daily sources of frustrations that we don’t understand.
Check back over the next few weeks to see what other things we can do to sharpen our spiritual focus, which will enable us to see the will of God and the way of God more clearly. Feel free to post ways that God has taught you through His word how to sharpen your focus.
Hope to “see” you soon!
Brother Randy,
There are many times when I have questioned what was going on. When I was in inside sales…I thought that I could do a better job, work harder than the outside salesman, competition, etc. When I was not involved in leadership at the church…I remember thinking “I can’t wait till I’m a leader, we’ll do things better/do more ministries here or there”.
Through the past year God’s finally showing me that you can’t force things to happen. There are only 24 hrs in a day and you have to prioritize those hrs.
In Church you can’t work so hard and become a super Christian. God just wants us to Accept Him for what He did for us…All the Glory is His…We can’t strive to be the latest, greatest church…we have to strive to be His Church and build up the Body of Christ as a whole. We aren’t serving FBBC, we are serving Him and to Him be all the Glory!
Amen
Oh by the way…I haven’t seen you wearing your glasses yet.
By: Bax Kegans on February 3, 2011
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