20/20 Vision

Sadly, I am at the age in which I need reading glasses. I picked some up at Target the other day. A 3 pack, economical way to buy them. I put a pair on, looked at the book and thought whoa…I cannot see well. My vision is a little blurry. So I switched to an old pair which is bent, because my dog Midnight slept on them the other night. I fell asleep reading and removed them at some point and placed them on the bed and she curled up right on top of them. Today I tried out 1 of the new pairs, still quite blurry, I looked at them again and realized there were plastic stickers on the lens to keep them from becoming scratched in the package.

When we look at the people or situations without the eyes of Jesus; our vision is blurry. When we read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, our vision is blurry. We want perfect vision; we want the eyes of Jesus which is the Holy Spirit. We want to see people with His eyes; we want to read the Word with His eyes.

Jesus said, “If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

You might say the Holy Spirit gives us 20/20 vision. Again today I say go out and be a walking testimony showing the love of God to all people. Even the slow people in the fast lane, or those people with 45 items in the express lane at the grocery store. Jesus died for them too…