Nearsightedness hinders many of you as it does me. That is not a difficulty
while our eyeglasses are handy. Without our glasses, however, we must get
close to an object to make sense of it. We must get very close if we are
to see any details. Many times something has fooled me until I got close
enough to interpret it correctly. I am thankful for eyeglasses but wearing
them is sometimes frustrating and always inconvenient. How liberating it
will be in Heaven when we will need eyeglasses no more!
Far more important than having my nearsightedness gone will be having
perfect spiritual vision with which to view our blessed Savior. John tells
us, "but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is." My feeble, wicked heart no longer
will keep me from seeing Christ in His fullness and glory. How wonderful
it will be to see Him as Peter, James, and John saw Him on the Mount of
Transfiguration. Not only will I see Him, but I will be like Him. I will
exchange my struggles with this old sinful flesh for unbroken and eternal
communion with the One Who died that I might live.
Until then, however, I desire my spiritual sight to improve. Sin now
clouds my vision of Him as Paul indicates, "For now we see through
a glass, darkly; but then face to face." Paul also tells us, "But
we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit
of the Lord." The "glass" in which I see Christ is the Word
of God. The more clearly I see Christ in Scripture, the more I become like
Him. My vision of Him and likeness to Him is to improve until I see Him
face to face. Then God will complete His work of conforming me to His image.
I am grateful for the Word of God which improves my vision of Christ. Without it, I would be blind to His grace and mercy. Scripture tell us that the gospel, "is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." Perhaps someone reading this is spiritually blind. You can receive sight today by accepting Christ as your Savior from sin.