New Eyes

Call me four-eyes; I have glasses. Say goodbye to the majority of my headaches, nausea, exhaustion, difficulty focusing, eye-soreness/sensitivity, and other unpleasant things! I remember when I was in elementary school; I had glasses for a couple years, and I hated them. I was supposed to wear them all the time, and I didn't wear them at all. Now, I'm actually excited to have them and wear them. Maybe it's because I've been suffering increasingly without them for so long. It's nice to look at things and not feel my eyes straining to work properly.

I have Astigmatism. It means that the shape of my eye, instead of being round like it should be, is shaped more like a football. Not by much, but on top of my farsightedness, it's just enough to cause difficulty and strain on them, and for my eyes to eventually wear out if they're not assisted. More good news is that the rest of both my eyes are very healthy.

I put on the new glasses and everything relaxed. I could see better because my eyes weren't so strained, counting on their own strength to see properly. I was struck with this thought: When we become Christians, and Christ takes over in our lives, it's rather like getting glasses. Or, more like, Christ is the pair of glasses. We stop counting on ourselves to see and have a correct view of things. When we tried, everything was blurry or unclear, and nothing was right enough to be able to focus on it and feel good about it, but when we trusted in and put on Christ, and looked through His perfect lenses, our vision cleared. We could see everything in a new light, and because we could now see properly, many things were revealed and/or made clear to us.

Just something to mull over.