Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see with perfect clarity.   All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.  – 1 Corinthians 13:12

Right now, I physically see horribly, but I see spiritually perhaps the best I ever have.  As a young man, I saw the world clearly but felt no real need for God.  Now, I see the world as one big giant blur, and I know I need Jesus every moment of every day.  You guys can certainly say a prayer for me as I hopefully have cataract surgery before I write my next WMD.

I read of Fanny Crosby the other day.  I’ve read her story many times, but I saw a detail that I’d never seen before.  I knew she was blind, but I didn’t know that it was caused by the mistake of a doctor.  She had every reason in the world to be bitter and angry, but she was having none of it.  She even said that she was glad she lost her sight, for if she had it all along, she knew for certain that her attention would quickly shift to the things of this world.  I’ll think of this for the rest of my life when I hear my favorite hymn that she wrote:

Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord

To the cross where Thou hast died

Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer blessed Lord

To Thy precious bleeding side

I also remember reading in Billy Graham’s book “Nearing Home” about his eyesight.  He spoke of how perhaps our eyesight grows worse as we get older simply so we are forced to set our minds on heaven and not on this world.  I really think God is going to allow my sight to be corrected for a season, but I am wondering and even worried about what I’m going to do with it.  I don’t want to go back to life as usual.  I want to honor my Lord and Savior with everything that I am.  I want to point as many people to Him as I can.  I want His love to infiltrate my heart even more than it does now.  

Lord, I sit here this morning painfully aware of my sins.  I’ve sinned knowing exactly what I was doing, and I’ve sinned and wasn’t even aware that I was sinning.  I have sins of commission and plenty of sins of omission.  But I looked afresh on Calvary this Sunday while I was at church.  You are a great God who covered and is still covering a great multitude of sins for all who think to ask.  All I can say is thank You.  Thank You for my ability to see clearly for all those years.  Forgive me for never even thinking to thank You for such a great gift.  I thank You now for my dimming sight, for perhaps I’ve seen You working in my life more than I ever have.  I need so much help, Lord.  Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me and help me keep the joy of my salvation for the rest of my days on this Earth.  Help all who read today to see a little more clearly.  Amen.