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Good Morning!  I'm learning sight plays a crucial role in my ability to live in the freedom Jesus paid to give me, so I've been researching physical sight to help gain a deeper understanding of the spiritual sight I want. 

Did you know clear eyesight is a three part process?

The absence of light is darkness.  No one can see without light!!!  We have absolutely no eyesight without light!  But...

Our pupils respond to even the smallest amount of light in a matter of seconds.  They dilate and pinpoint to allow more or less light in, but that is the limit of their abilities. 

Cone cells begin working as soon as the pupil allows even the smallest amount of light to hit the retina.  Cone cells help our eyes adapt to the darkness in about 10 minutes, but they can only give us limited clarity.

Rod cells play the final role of eyesight.  Rod cells complete the process of clear vision, but it is a very slow process that develops over a period of several hours.

Taking this into the spiritual...we live in a world that is spiritually dark, and only by the Light of Christ Jesus does the sight process begin.  The more time spent in the Light, the clearer our spiritual eyesight becomes.

Praying for my spiritual rod cells to bring that long, slow, and final process of clarity was my immediate response to what I learned.  I knew I desperately needed the LORD's thoughts and perspective to be made clear to me.  It was the only way I'd ever be completely free.  Then the reality of what I ask for hit...

Seeing my thoughts and words and actions from God's perspective is turning out to be painful, but I am overwhelmed with the sweetness of His forgiveness and the deeper intimacy the clarity and repentance is bringing into our relationship.  I'm far from clear sighted, but plan to keep my eyes wide open to the LIGHT!!!

LORD, help me know (see) the good I ought to do - and do it!  No excuses.  No shrinking back.  No struggling over what someone else will think.  Trusting You, Your thoughts and Your ways.  Thank you for Your Light.  Thank You for your forgiveness.  Thank You for my freedom in You.  Help me exercise it with diligence and joy!  Amen.

And this is the message which we have heard from him and proclaim to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him — none!  1st John 1:5 (CJB)

So then, anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it is committing a sin. James 4:17 (CJB)

All wrongdoing is sin.  1st John 5:17a (CJB)

If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.
1st John 1:9 (CJB)


 


 


 


 


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