speaking of vision...

[thoughts]
Coincidentally, or perhaps not, I was reading a devotional this morning that described a scene. You are driving in a storm, the wind and rain is pretty treacherous, but you're driving cautiously. You look down to your radio to change the station, and in that moment you have driven up on to a curb and hit a mailbox. What this was paralleling was that in our spiritual lives we've learned to face the storms, we've learned and know how to meneuver our way, but it isn't the storms that screw us over, it is when we take our eyes off the road. The driving scenario is oddly very reflective of my driving and recalls a many instances--namely, rear-ending while on the phone. And I realize in my spiritual life, the distractions and misdirection of my eyes lead to my downfall.

I had taken my eyes off the vision--so mesmorized by the bright lights on the radio, the interior, the materialism, the immediate affection, that I've driven into a pit. How can I keep my eyes from seeing, or rather focusing on the shallow, interior, and bring my eyes to see further out, deeper, more meaningfully, at things of true value?

Jesus, I confess even now that my eyes are on me. I've got a horrible case of near-sightedness.

I realize that keeping your eyes on Jesus, does not mean you do not see the things that immediately surround you in the closer environment, but instead he shows you, perhaps like a mirror, how the things around you really are and shows you a reflection of yourself. Perhaps it's like a filter, a better way of seeing life, through the eyes of a man who lived out of love, selflesness, and compassion.

How can I challenge myself each day to look out, and look at things through Him?

[turn your eyes upon jesus. look forward, on his wonderful face. and the things of this world will grow strangely dim. in the light of his glory and grace.]