Vision

Blindness necessitates adjustments to one's environment and activities so one can participate effectively in life. Seeing eye dogs, braille writers and readers, the heightened senses of smell, sound and touch all assist!

I doubt that many people can pretend to be sighted when they are physically blind. However, it can be very easy to move about with obscured or clouded vision. We can cope with some degree of myopia...so we do.

I can't imagine what it would be like to experience a sudden transformation from total blindness to clear vision. However, I know the difference between obscured, blurred sight and 20/20 acuity. Most of us have experienced a vision examination and responded to: Which is clearer: This, or this?

As I pray, I look at myself and life around me. Are there cataracts forming on the eyes of my soul? How do I delude myself? Can I acknowledge my delusions (blindness) and allow Christ to heal my capacity to see? To what steps does he take me if I lean upon his arm as dependently as a blind person holds on to the harnass of her seeing eye dog?

The more I acknowledge my blindness, the more I can see....But Jesus reminds me that even what I see then is but an obscured image of all He could have me see through the lens of faith. I must lean upon his arm...walking with him as one who is totally blind...there is no other way I can see what and how he knows I need to see!


Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, "Surely we are not blind, are we?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.
John 9:39-41