Father, You know that at times there are things beyond our control. It is much easier said than done but help us to give those things over to You and to trust You with them all. Amen.

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I had an eye appointment today. The picture you see above, those are retinal scans of my eyes – the inside of my eyes! As my optometrist was going over what it showed him, I was in awe! In awe over the picture itself (Isn’t it amazing? That is just one example of our Creator’s intricate awesomeness!) and in awe over all the things it communicates – that one picture – to someone who is well versed in interpreting such things.

I’m a diabetic, and there are minute red dots that tell my doctor things about that. We are keeping a “close eye” on those.

The veins and arteries coming out, potentially tell him about cholesterol issues. (I’m on cholesterol medication, prescribed by my primary physician. I don’t have high cholesterol but am taking a small dosage to help prevent other issues with my diabetes and mild high blood pressure.)

There are other things my optometrist could see in those pictures that would point to any number of issues with my heart or lungs or kidneys even! How could I not be in awe?

(A little side note: Please, get your eyes checked regularly! There’s a lot more involved than correcting your vision. Other health issues can be detected – it may save your life!)

My optometrist can see and understand a lot from eye scans. But from a spiritual perspective, Jesus spoke of what eyes show us. He said in Luke 11:34-36,

“Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight were filling you with light.” NLT

Spiritually speaking all that we see impacts who and what we are spiritually. If we have healthy eyes, we see clearly (the Amplified Bible stresses that that means that we are spiritually perceptive and focused on God) and being filled with light allows us to benefit from God’s precepts.

But, if our eyes are unhealthy [spiritually blind], there is no light – only darkness [devoid of God’s word].

In John 8:12 Jesus proclaimed, “I am the Light of the world.”

Earlier, in John 3:19-21 He said,

“This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned. But whoever practices truth [and does what is right – morally, ethically, spiritually] comes to the Light, so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are – accomplished in God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence on Him].”

What we see, “opens our eyes” to who and what we are. May we run to the light, not shrink from it!

Oct 20th, 2022, Thurs, 12:32 pm