Vision for What

So this might be a little weird, but I wore my glasses today. Not only did I feel like a cute nerd :P , but it got me thinking. The important times I make sure to wear my contacts include: concerts, plays, movie theaters, so on. Why? Because I don't want to miss any detail! I want to see how the backstage crew hooks up Glinda in her flying bubble-blowing bubble, and I can't miss how the thing in the background is preparing to slice someone's head off. (slightly gory, sorry.) I want to guarantee that I see how the lights set the mood for the next song. Why don't I wear my glasses? Short answer: I don't want to be an owl. Owls can't move their eyeballs, just their head. (270 degrees, might I add) My eye doctor explained that when I wear glasses, the only part that has max prescription is the very center, the part I look through. And for me, having max prescription is kinda a big deal! If I look up, down, or side to side, I have a very slim part to look through before my glasses end and my vision becomes blurry.

And this fact made me think of our Christian walk. Shouldn't we be looking through glasses when we go through life? Straight through the perfected personalized lenses to the Creator of our imperfect eyes. He didn't create them imperfect, but because of our sin, we all need glasses. While contacts are great to physically wear, spiritually they allow us to see everything else going on other than the Lead Actor, Jesus Christ. We can get distracted with the lights and the set changes, the backstage or backseat junk in our life. And while the backstage stuff can set a mood, how the Lead Actor reacts(ed) to things going on around Him shows(ed) how we should react. He IS our role model, anyway!

Maybe you've focused on some backstage stuff lately, go to God with it. Make it all right. I definitely still need work in that area. My prescription in my glasses isn't always to the max, but I'm striving. Check out my new life quote: "God gave us our free will so we would have something to give back to God." What are you doing with YOUR free will?