Sight.

I have a metaphor in my mind that I’m not completely satisfied with but it serves the purpose to relate, none the less.

I was running the other day (surprise, surprise) when my contacts started driving me nuts [thank you pollen]. So, I started thinking about the choice to wear glasses over contacts, then wished I had enough money to have laser  eye surgery so that I didn’t have to deal with choosing. It would be simple and nice to just be able to see clearly.

I think that poor sight can be related to the Christian walk.

There are some exceptions that would have to be made, namely that none of us are born with 20/20 vision and that laser eye surgery is free.

For those of us who wear glasses, we know the difference between the confusion that is the world where we can’t see and the clarity that Christ brings but we also know that as soon as something comes into focus that we don’t like – we can slip the glasses off, no hassle involved. When trying to look in too many directions and figure out where to go, the glasses can aid in giving you a headache – because the focus is only clear through one path at a time. You can’t think about things in full circle, only in pieces.

The contact wearers are a step up. They get and grasp the need for clarity. However, they are at a place of thinking that contacts are nearly as good as laser eye surgery, they see clearly a majority of the time. The problem with contacts though is that if you don’t clean them, they get dirty. If you aren’t being constantly renewed you are making your sight fair-game for whatever hindrance wants to come in. Another problem with contact users is lack of understanding that laser eye surgery is FREE! Why would you not want to be able to see 100% of the time – the good bad and the ugly, then you can know what is right (Rom 12:2). Yet another problem with contact wearers, we sometimes know the ease of taking off the glasses – and go back to our old habits.

In this metaphor God is the Physician (no change there…because He is in real life), but He is ALWAYS prescribing laser surgery, He never prescribes glasses or contacts – they are just a thing of society that we have been blinded [no pun intended] into believing these quick fixes are as good as permanent change. So few of us grasp the need for the 100% change. 

Put your glasses down, take your contacts out, He offers clarity and perfection through Him – for FREE!

It still has some work to be done, I know -but I was just mulling around with these thoughts and if I didn’t write them down…who knows how long I would remember them.