Is your eyesight good?
Are you sure?
Are you absolutely positive?
It seems like corrective surgery for vision is everywhere these days. You can even finance your eye repairs. I’ll admit I’ve been tempted by the lure of perfect vision. Glasses can be just as much of a pain as they are a help; especially on rainy days, or warm days when I walk outside, or cold days when I walk inside. Basically Alabama’s humidity and glasses do not play well together.
Fortunately, I’ve let Dave Ramsey drill into my head that debt is bad, so I’ll wait until I’ve saved up enough to do it. Of course, first comes the baby emergency fund, then the debt snowball, and then the upcoming vet bills, then… Well you get the idea. It’s pretty far down the priority list. Plus, argyle had a pretty bad experience with his, so I might be holding off indefinitely.
However, my dad just had cataract surgery on both his eyes last month. And while it was necessary for a different purpose, it had the same effect. While listening to his description of the procedure and its results, one thing stood out: he never realized how much he was missing before it.
It wasn’t until his lenses were replaced that he saw the little details that the difference in hi-def and standard definition TVs provided. I bet he thought I was crazy to insist on bringing my PS3 to watch the Blu-ray version of movies instead of the DVD format.
But now. Now his eyes have been opened. He’ll appreciate the quality and crispness of the picture. He’ll see things that he would’ve missed before, but would’ve been completely ignorant about.
In the same vein, we can let our vision be blurred in respect to scriptural matters. If we let others tell us what the Bible says instead of studying it ourselves, we become ignorant to what we may be missing.
Ignorance in this case, can be dangerous.
Acts 17:30
New King James Version (NKJV)
30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
At one time humans were allowed some measure of ignorance, but now we are all expected to repent from our sins.
2 Corinthians 4
New King James Version (NKJV)4 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Do not let the world blind you from His light. Study the word for yourself.
2 Timothy 2:15
New King James Version (NKJV)
15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Make sure your “eyesight” is as good as it can be.
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