I was driving, but I couldn’t see. My glasses were smudged. Gray smudges blurred the lenses through which I saw life. I tried redirecting my eyes—look toward the yellow and white lines. Still, I kept going back to the splotch.
When vision is blocked, moving forward is hard. A blind person can’t easily move ahead.
Think about times you’ve encountered these situations:
Snow on your windshield…
Rain pouring down…
A fogged-up front window…
How can you go when you can’t see?
You know, spiritual blindness is much like natural blindness.
We get so caught up in something that we can’t see God in anything.
- Offense smudges our perspective of love.
- A critical spirit blocks potential relationships.
- Bitterness turns us inward because we’ve been hurt so much.
- Jealousy blots out a friend’s valid attempt to love us.
- Envy makes us hate the people God has called us to love.
- Comparing makes us feel prideful—or hateful—toward ourselves.
- Putting too much emphasis on hard times makes us believe our future is catastrophic. “It will all turn out horribly,” we think.
What do we do with this eye situation?
First, we can start by praying this scripture over ourselves:
“[I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you—the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people).” (Ephesians 1:18)
When God starts illuminating distractions, start paying attention.
Many of us don’t even realize how smudged our lenses of life actually are. We go around unaware. But the moment we begin to see, we really begin to see. Then hope comes back. Expectation returns. Joy surfaces.
You know, it’s easy to see smudges in other people’s eyes. But ask Him to show you the smudges in yours—and then allow the light of the Holy Spirit to guide you in His way, as you turn from what hinders.
Prayer: Father, open the eyes of our heart; we don’t want to be blind. The Pharisees were called “blind guides” by Jesus. Let this not be true of us. Let us not be the blind leading the blind, but rather those who walk with hearts enlightened and illuminated by your truth, love, and grace. May we know the riches of our glorious inheritance in You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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