A man in California had his eyesight restored last week along with his faith in others. William Noriega lost eyesight in both eyes at the age of 40 due to cataracts. He was unable to keep a job & lost insurance, prohibiting him from having surgery. An ophthalmologist heard of his plight of no sight & restored the 43 year old man’s eyesight .
I’m very appreciative of my eyesight. We often take it for granted, but as a young collegian I was working during holidays to pay tuition. I was nailing a ‘government issued’ wood/plastic board, when a nail shot off & hit my right eye. Though I’ve never been hit in the eye with a baseball bat, I’ve gotta think it would probably feel something like that. It knocked me backward, where I gingerly felt to see how far the nail went into my eyeball. I was fortunate in that it just punctured my eye & fell out. The doctor later told me I was extremely fortunate. It missed my iris by a fraction. No large amount of fluid was lost so I was spared. I can see to type this!
While I am blessed with physical eyesight, I sometimes lose spiritual eyesight. Problems come into my life that distract me & I focus on them rather than blessings. It’s the old adage, ‘can’t see the forest for the trees.’ We may have so many things to be thankful for, yet we tend to fix on something negative or something we don’t have. If not careful, it keeps me from the blessings God intends, & also from vision to see the direction He would have me go.
While that is not the best, the worst is total spiritual blindness. A world of people is blinded with no realization or relationship with God. His blessings are all around us & evidence of His love, but many are ‘blinded by the god of this world’ & see only pain & harsh existence.
Jesus said:
“God's Spirit is on Me; He's chosen Me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, Sent Me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the burdened and battered free, to announce, "This is God's year to act!"
Luke 4:18-19 The Message
My family has been going through some murky waters lately. Both of our parents have some serious health issues and, if not careful, we’ll lose sight of all God’s promises focusing on the problems. I suppose it’s a kind of temporary blindness. I appreciate my physical & spiritual sight too much to want to walk in darkness. Some things I may understand in this life & others, well, I’ll ask in eternity if it matters then. I offer prayer regularly & right now would covet the same from you all.
My prayer for you is that you would not have spiritual blindness. If simply distracted by situations it can be temporary. If there has never been a point in time where you’ve given your life to the Creator, I pray you’ll do just that. Then you can sing with me that old hymn: “I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see…”
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