Suddenly, I could see.
For the first time in several years, the world swam into sharp focus. It had been too long since I had had new glasses, and I had forgotten what it was like to have everything in exact and precise relief. Colors leaped out at me in the distance. Glancing at my wrist, I marveled that I could read the day and date on my watch.
I have worn glasses since the fourth grade. My eyes and my vision have been my personal thorn-in-my side all my life. From the very beginning, I hated glasses. Well, maybe not from the very beginning, but at least from the first mocking "four-eyes" that came echoing down the school hall. I yanked the glasses off and shoved them into my pocket. And for the most part, they stayed there.
As soon as I could talk Mom and Dad into them, I tried contacts. Of course, it turned out I was allergic to them. My eyes simply wouldn't tolerate them. So it was back to the glasses.
Eventually, vanity gave way to practicality, especially when I had to buy glasses myself and they became a permanent fixture on my face. They lasted a lot longer there, doing what they were supposed to do, than they did crammed into my pocket.
For too long, I treated God's Word like my glasses. I've had a Bible my whole life. But without opening it, without reading it, without studying it ... it did me as much good as those glasses did in my pocket. That Holy-Spirit-breathed Word, those life-given verses, are God's glasses for me to see His world. I have to get that Word into me ... to wear it like a pair of glasses to see my Lord and the supernatural world that is our forever home.
God gives many descriptions of His Word: a double-edged sword, a light on my path, bread, rivers of living water, and even Jesus Himself. But the description that suits me best is the Word as glasses. My glasses. My vision into my Lord's world and His way for my life.
Don't be like me and leave those glasses, His Word, stuffed and useless in your pocket. Put them on. Discover His world. See what He desires for you to see.
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Kevin Spencer likes to play with words, help others play with them, and is privileged to be a staff writer for Christian Devotions. He lives with his beautiful blessing of a wife, Charlotte, and his amazing collegiate grandson, Caleb.