Now I See...

My new glasses arrived recently. When I went to the eye center to pick them up, the nice young lady at the counter asked me to try them on to see how they fit. As I paused for a moment and stared blankly, she asked “Are they uncomfortable?” “Yes,” I replied. “They fit just fine, but I can’t see!” The sales clerk confidently told me that that’s normal and to give it a couple of weeks to know if I’m still having difficulty.

I reluctantly told her okay and left the store thinking, this place got it really really wrong. 

From the time it took me to drive from the eye center back to my place of employment (with no glasses on), the holy spirit began to remind me: the optometrist did say that my prescription had changed quite a bit. And it also dawned on me that the last eye exam I’d gotten was some 20 months prior. So, upon my arrival at work, I decided to actually try the glasses again, perhaps these trained professional eye care specialists did know what they were talking about.

I put the new glasses on and once again, everything seemed wobbly, disjointed, 4Dimensional even! But despite this discomfort and foreign existence, I was determined to TRY. It’s been two days now, and I can honestly say that my experience is far less dramatic than it seemed on day one, and I can only imagine my eyes will continue to adjust to this corrected vision in due time.

How often do we make the same mistake spiritually? I was so familiar with seeing incorrectly that my first instinct was to reject and remove the very thing that was custom designed to help me. Because the new vision altered what I had taught myself to be comfortable and correct, I immediately chose the headaches, watery eyes and muscle spasms that accompanied my previous state of existence instead of embracing something that was created to assist me.

From this experience I learned that it is possible to get so comfortable in our sins that when righteousness is introduced, we could interpret it as an unfamiliar, foreign existence and run away from it when its presented. But, if we would only TRY to live the new lifestyle that Jesus exemplifies, in due time, the corrected, custom made, cleaner lifestyle will become part of us and that will be our new normal.

Quote: “Wake Up Every day and Try”

Song: “Strangely Dim” by Francesca Battistelli

Meditation Verse: Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law.