ten commandments resting on my head...

yesterday my new glasses came in the mail. i had noticed my eyesight was gitting worse - mostly just from being with my husband and realizing all he could see that i couldn’t. i found myself saying in my head “wow! he can see that?! so i should be able to see that clearly?!” over and over again. 

so something had to be done….eye exam. check.

so they come. i immediately rip open the package, put them on, and as i stare out our back porch window, things suddenly became so incredibly clearer. the tan spots across the yard had become individual blades of grass. i could clearly see all the details of the power poles. the things i look at everyday had become so different, so much more clear and defined.

later that evening we were at an engagement party for our friends zac and rebecca and i was telling my mother-in-law about my experience earlier in the day. as i was telling it i couldnt help but think of how it so greatly told the story of the israelites.

 my story. 

i immediately said to her, “its like i was suddenly wearing the ten commandments on my head!!” 

without God’s perfect standard given to us, we think we’re not really that bad, everyone is like this, everyone feels this way…fill in the blank. but when we hold God’s standard of holiness and righteousness up beside our life, when we see just how holy he is and how far we fall from that, we realize the truth of our condition. 

i realized the truth of just how bad my vision really was as soon as i looked through my new glasses. it became apparent that i was actually supposed to be able to see those blades of grass.

so thanks matthew, for being the one to share the good news with me. it wasnt exactly what i wanted to find out - whoa, i cant see. but after i realized it, i now have sight!

its so exciting that through jesus we can truly have life, the life that we’re supposed to have. not the one we’re deceived into thinking we have apart from him, its not life to its fullest. so may we all embrace our need for glasses and not only that…but be the one to simply go through life with those around us, sharing what we see now that we’ve been given a new, truer and clearer perspective of just how things look, so that those who dont know may realize just how much they can’t see, and from there gain sight.