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I used to be severely near- want to be blameless before You! I
sighted. In fact, if you were four feet want Your eyes to stop on ME!"
away from me, your face was blurry to
me without the use of glasses. So John got to look Jesus straight in
when I heard of a procedure that would the eyes in the book of Revelation
correct my near-sightedness and allow (Revelation 1). John described the
me to go without glasses, I jumped at Lord's eyes are "flames of fire". Upon
the chance. The procedure was called looking Jesus in the eyes, John fell
Lasik, and as you've probably already down as though he was a dead man.
heard, it's performed with a laser. His strength seemed to have been
sucked right out of his body.
I've heard that nowadays the pro- Try to imagine what it would be like
cedure has changed dramatically from looking into the eyes of Someone Who
what it was back in 2003 when I went has existed forever...Someone Who can
under the knife. I say "under the knife",
because back then that was part of the see everything about you. You would
process. The surgeon would daub your be looking into Eternity...and far be-
eyes with a numbing solution, then cut yond.
across them with a scalpel, then correct
your vision with a laser of sorts. God has given you and me eyes
to see, both physically and spiritually.
Although I was quite excited to
have the procedure done, it didn't quite In 1 John 1:1, we're told, "What
go as I had hoped, and my eyesight was from the beginning...what we have
over-corrected. I had gone in near- seen with our eyes..." The writer is tell-
sighted, only to come out needing num- ing us he actually saw Jesus. In fact,
ber 4 reading glasses just to see my
watch. I endured reading as through the Greek states it in such a way that
the bottom of a Coke bottle for several the writer was describing the sight of
months before I was able to go through Jesus was so incredible he could close
the procedure once again. his eyes and still see our Lord!
The second time I had Lasik per- Revelation 1:7 tells us that when
formed, the physician gave me a valium Jesus returns, every eye (physical) will
and told me to go home and take a nap. see Him returning in the clouds!
I did as told, and when I awoke, I found
myself in a new world. I could see Hebrews 12:2 tells us, "...keeping
things right in front of me that I'd never our eyes on Jesus, the source and per-
really "seen" before. I now had better fecter of our faith..." This is in reference
to our spiritual eyes.
than 20/20 vision!
The Bible refers to the eye as an Matthew 13:15 quotes Isaiah
6:10, saying, "For this people's heart
organ of physical and spiritual sight. has grown callous; their ears are hard of
We're told in 2 Chronicles 16:9, "For the hearing, and they have shut their eyes,
eyes of the Lord run to and fro through- otherwise they might see with their eyes
out the whole earth, to show Himself and hear with their ears, understand
strong on the behalf of them whose with their hearts and turn back-and I
heart is perfect toward Him." Another would cure them." Once again, the
word for "perfect" is blameless. Every eyes referenced here are our spiritual
eyes.
time I read that verse, I cry out, "Lord, I
The more our spiritual eyes are
opened, the more we begin to see the
world around us through God's eyes.
