My “Soul Glasses”

Last week I woke up with a sharp pain in my right eye.  I could barely open it and thought perhaps I had accidentally jabbed it during the night.  It was so painful.  I was able to see the Dr that very day and now after four days of eye drops it has settled down and I’m fine.

However, I realize what a dreadful thing it would be losing one’s sight. Since my cataract surgery I only need my reading glasses.  Without them the words on the page become a blur.  The images lose their shape as well as their meaning.  I’m stuck trying to decipher what I am seeing. 

When reading the words of our Lord and His teachings, I need to put on my “soul glasses.”   I want my glasses to grant me the ability to perceive the world from an inner and deeper perspective.  Through these lenses, I can see the real essence of people, situations, and my relationship to the Divine.

Without these “soul glasses”, we see people consumed by their struggles and their unattractive qualities.  Everything that makes them unappealing.  But Jeshua (Jesus) taught us to look beyond these superficialities and to delve into the core of each person, unearthing their real personhood.   We all are created in His image.  An actual fragment of the Divine! 

This perspective extends to situations as well.  How often do you find yourself entangled in circumstances where everything and everyone seems out of control.  Our situation seems hopeless and bleak.  Yet, by putting on our “soul glasses” we can see His hand working. 

So, when my situation seemed hopeless, I found Hope.  Hope is in the form of a person.  He is our Hope! 

Throughout our lives there are moments of triumph where we succeed to perceive people and circumstances through the lenses of our “soul glasses.”  Of course, there are also times where the veils of concealment are overpowering, and our vision is blurred.  However, even those moments, our vision is one of hope and renewal.  We are inspired toward a future when our vision will be 20/20.  Those “soul glasses” won’t be needed.

“For now, I see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully……..”  1Cor. 13: 12