spiritual eyesight
Nov 2nd, 2007 by Nathanael
A few months ago, we were in a training session at work. I was having trouble reading the power point slides. So the guy that was running the training re-focused the projector. I still couldn’t read it. I made the comment that I needed to get glasses. He handed me his. I put them on, and the words on the screen popped into focus. I said, “Wow, I really DO need glasses.”
Then my friend Dan Fisher pointed out that reason I could see so clearly when I put on the glasses was because I was seeing the image through the lenses of the man who focused the projector. Of course it’s gonna be clear.
Isn’t that true of our dogma sometimes? It’s so clear to us. And we are amazed at how clearly we see things, and even more amazed that others just don’t see it as clearly as we do. What’s wrong with them? What’s wrong with their vision? All the while, they are asking the same questions about us, about our spiritual eyesight.
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love”
(attributed to Augustine 354-430 AD)
this brought to mind that old hymn with the lines -
“Silently now I wait for Thee, Ready, my God, thy will to see;
Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine.” (Clara Scott)
we sure don’t see clearly on our own!
Amen!