Spiritual Glasses – Day 17

My eyesight is not the best.  I wear contacts or glasses so I can function.  Without them, everything is blurry.  But as soon as I either put my contacts in or put my glasses on, things clear up.  They become more defined.  

For me, needing my glasses to read is obvious.  I cannot see the letters on the page, or if there are any.  I cannot read a book or a medicine bottle, my phone, or the computer screen, or really anything else.  With my glasses, I am able to see.  But seeing far off is a different story.  Many people who don’t know they need glasses are amazed at how much clearer the world can be once they put them on.  They didn’t know they were missing objects and events around them.  They didn’t realize how skewed their vision was until they had something to improve how they saw the world.

Maybe following Jesus is finding our spiritual glasses.  Having him as our guide helps us to see the world a bit differently.  Jesus talked to the leaders of his culture and called them blind and said the blind could actually see.  It had to confuse them.  But Jesus was speaking of something much deeper.  He was speaking of a spiritual vision.  

When we follow Jesus, truly seek to be like him, we begin to see the world slightly different.  We begin to see people, not as others but as brothers or sisters.  We begin to see the table as a place to commune rather than simply a place to lay our mail.  We begin to see kindness as a way to be the light rather than a chore should do.  We begin to see how love, God’s love, really can change things.  We begin to see God’s creation not as something expendable but beauty we are to care and tend.   We begin to see everything a bit differently.  Our spiritual glasses begin to clear up so many blurry visions.  We might even begin to see how God is still at work in our world, despite what the news may tell us.  

Maybe we begin to follow Jesus so he clears our way.  Maybe we see through spiritual glasses the great need for the love of Jesus and the craving for the joy, hope, peace and grace that comes only through him.  Maybe, just maybe, we begin to view the world through his lens, and that might just change us.