I was walking with two of my friends the other day and we found ourselves laughing as we talked about the affect age is having on our eyesight. I commented that the day I turned forty my eyes began to go and it’s been downhill ever since. Between the three of us, I am the oldest; one friend is two years younger, and the other eleven years younger than I am. My friend, who is the youngest of the three, said she was not having difficulty at all in seeing close up but was beginning to notice a little difficulty with distances. We all agreed that it was the curse of what they call – Middle Age! Of course we refuse to refer to ourselves as women who are Middle Aged!
My friend, just two years younger, told us that when she has her contacts in she can see her text messages clearly, but without them there is no way she can see a text message without turning her cell phone backwards in her large magnifying make-up mirror. We laughed at the sight of her running to the bathroom to use her make-up mirror to read her text messages.
The youngest said she saw a card once that pictured a group of older women sitting in a circle, all with glasses atop their heads. The words inside the card read, “The Lost Eye Glasses Club.” How sad that I could relate to that card! How many times have I walked through the house asking myself, “Where are my glasses,” just to find that they were on my head!
I was in a meeting this week previewing the new web-site for the ministry. There were three women in the office where we met. My friend and I sat across the desk from the lady who developed the web-sight. As we began scrolling through, my friend kept making comments on the colors used on the sight. She felt they were too dark, too dense, and some needed to be brightened. Finally, the creator of the site said she was not seeing what my friend was seeing. She invited us to come and stand on the other side of her desk in front of the computer. Oh my, what a difference! Standing closer to the computer we could see clearly, the colors were sharp and bright. But, from a distance we couldn’t see the true depth and intensity of the colors.
“When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus, and they begged him to touch the man and heal him. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then, spitting on the man’s eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, “Can you see anything now?” The man looked around. “Yes,” he said, “I see people, but I can’t see them very clearly. They look like trees walking around.” Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again, and his eyes were opened. His sight was completely restored, and he could see everything clearly.” Mark 8:22-25 NAS
The disciples witnessed Jesus’ healing of the blind man and immediately following, Jesus asked them, “Who do people say that I am?” They responded with, “Some say you are John the Baptist.” He then asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” We see Peter declaring, “You are the Messiah.” Their eyes were opened through their witness of the miracles He performed and through walking daily with Him.
Glasses, eye contacts, and laser surgery can heal our physical sight and help us to see more clearly, but nothing and no one, can give us spiritual sight accept God the Father through His Son and by the Holy Spirit. The man in Bethsaida was born blind, only Jesus could heal him. The disciples were blind spiritually and only God could heal their blindness and help them to see clearly that Jesus was the Messiah.
Father, thank you that You have opened my eyes to see You in all your glory through the working of your spirit in my life! Help my eyes to be 20/20, when it comes to the sin in my life, and my tongue quick to confess. I desire to have eyes that see clearly what You have for me each day. May I see You in the sunrise, the sunset, and in every divine minute in between. May I know You as Messiah, the One who makes the blind to see!
“Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.” Psalm 119:18
“But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign Lord.” Psalm 141:8a
“I lift up my eyes to you, O God, enthroned in the heaven.” Psalm 123:1
dianne