Day 9 of 500. Focus. “I ask God… to make your eyes focused and clear, so you can see exactly what it is God is calling you to do…” Eph. 1:18 (Mes)
Focus.
At the age of 45 I walked into the Doctor’s office for my first ever eye exam. He said, “You will leave here with glasses.” I said, “We will see!” Notice my joke there, “We will see,” it’s an eye doctor. He asked me to read line 6, I did, then I said, “How about I give you 7 and 8 also.” I did.
He is in the business of selling glasses, I’m in the business of avoiding aging. I know that in reality he is in business to provide clarity to people. To help them bring into focus that which is unclear. That is my desire also. To help others better grasp an idea or a truth that they recognize already in theory but can’t quite grasp the details. They are definitely not seeing in High-Def.
A year later the doctor again told me I would leave with glasses. My pride again said no. We compromised, I went home with the lowest power readers to use in the early morning when my diabetes makes my eyes work a little harder. Just a few months later changes in my diet and stress level have allowed me to put away the glasses. My focus has returned, “I can see clearly now….” as the song says.
My prayer for you and me is the same Paul offered to the church at Ephesus, “I ask God… to make your eyes focused and clear, so you can see exactly what it is God is calling you to do…” Eph. 1:18 (Mes) I’m not asking you to repeat letters on a poster on the wall. Instead we are going to look to God’s Word, especially the Red Letters, to get our eyes to try harder to have clarity as we go further into what God is trying to say. It is just like the lower lines on the eye chart, I have to spend more time, I have to go over them more that once, I have to ask, “Is that an O or a Q,” God am I interpreting your true message for me?
1 Corinthians 13:12 “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.” BUT “I ask God… to make your eyes focused and clear, so you can see exactly what it is God is calling you to do…” Eph. 1:18 (Mes)
If you never go to the physician and attempt to read the letters on the wall, you will never know the true clarity of your vision.
If you never go to the Great Physician and attempt to read His Word placed upon the page, you will never know with clarity His vision for you.
“So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision – you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it. Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal.” Philipians 3:15-17
“Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart…”
Billy