2 Corinthians 5:7 We walk by faith, not by sight.
How many of us can say that we struggle with blurry vision but refuse to go to the doctor to have our eyes checked?? For me I have always had 20/20 vision but after I had Carston I started having blurred vision. To the point I cannot even read the numbers or letters on the car tag in front of me or the big letters on the billboards. I refused to admit that I needed to go to the eye doctor and get my eyes checked because I was not about to get those things called glasses. Nope, not me. Well last year, 2020, I just about had enough. I was tired of not being able to see, I was tired of having horrible migraines, I was tired of squinting to see the confidence monitor on the back wall at church. TIRED, TIRED, TIRED. I made an eye appointment and allowed the optometrist to do their job which ended with them prescribing me with glasses, Multi-focal to be exact. For a while I was as rebellious as a red headed stepchild and refused to wear them as I just could not grasp that the day had come. But in all my rebellion and complaining when I would wear them, I could see so much better! Recently I started think about how this related to my spiritual focus. It does in a lot of ways. Just like my physical focus, without proper attention my spiritual focus can get extremely blurry. I become worn out, I start having stress headaches, I cry more than normal, I start looking at situations around me and get down right sideways and all twisted up in my thoughts. I question everything during these moments. Every season I have walked through the past 7 year, others, and their motives in certain situations, and even my calling/sole purpose in life. Surely not you Laura?? Yes, me, I know I hide it well sometimes to well. As the song says, Truth be told…. Why does this happen? Because I am looking at life through a clouded lens. Because of pride or whatever you want to call it or better yet the opinions and chatter of others, I refuse to go and take my struggles, my weakness, my blurred vision to the doctor that can help me. I know my struggles would be a lot less, if just like in my physical vision, I would take my spiritual vision to the great physician and allow him to adjust my focus. To put the lens of the word of God upon my gaze so that things could be a lot clearer. Today I am not sure what the lens that you are looking through is revealing to you. It may be revealing to you that a situation you are in is so unbearable that you cannot survive it, it may be a lens allowing you to not have clarity on making that decision that you know you so desperately need to, It may be a lens that is so distorted that it’s telling you that the marriage you are in cannot be restored, that it is dead and you need to accept it. It may be a lens that is so out of focus that you cannot even find the way to find truth the path is just too treacherous. I come today to say that if you will just focus and turn your gaze to the Father, He is waiting to adjust the focus. To speak to you directly and reveal truth to you in every situation that seems foggy or blurred. To give you 20/20 vision to walk this journey out. Do not Lose Hope Friend! Do not Lose Focus! He has got you. Walk by Faith not by Sight.
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AuthorMy Name is Laura Perdue. I am 44 years old and married to my best friend, Brian Perdue and mommy to Carston Perdue. Brian and I reside in Woodstock Ga and serve on the action team of Fivestones Church in Holly Springs. Archives
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