20/20 Vision

Throughout this past year, it was more and more noticeable that the cataracts on both of my eyes were distorting my vision and making it difficult to read and decipher small print as well as see things clearly.  After an eye appointment, the doctor recommended having the cataracts removed as well as considering lasik to correct my vision.  It is amazing how much clearer and easily I can see since the procedures.

As grateful as I am for improved physical eyesight, I also want to make sure I am desiring that for my spiritual eyesight as well.  Whereas I had no control over what was happening to my physical eyesight, I do have choices to make daily about what I view, read, and the ways I look at people and situations.  I want to learn to see and respond to life through God’s eyes and to keep my eyes focused on Jesus. 

“Father’s Eyes”

By Amy Grant

And on that day when we will pay for all the deeds we have done,

Good and bad they’ll all be had to see by everyone.

And when you’re called to stand and tell just what you saw in me,

More than anything I know, I want your words to be,

She had her father’s eyes,

Her father’s eyes;

Eyes that found the good in things,

When good was not around;

Eyes that found the source of help,

When help would not be found;

Eyes full of compassion,

Seeing every pain;

Knowing what you’re going through,

And feeling it the same.

Just like my father’s eyes.

May 2020 be the year that we have 20/20 eyesight, a heart and eyes that clearly see things from God’s point of view, and an obedient spirit and response. 

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 34:8

Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.

Psalm 119:18

Turn my eyes from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.

Psalm 119:37

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”

Matthew 6:22

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

Hebrews 12:1-2a

I lift up my eyes to the mountains –

     where does my help come from?

My help comes from the LORD,

     the Maker of heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Ephesians 1:18-19a