I recently ordered a new pair of glasses. The kind where the lenses gradually transition from distance vision to bifocals as you scan down to the bottom of the lens. When I tried them on for the first time it was evident the bifocal line was too high, breaking right across the midpoint of the lens. When I looked straight ahead my eyes and my brain couldn’t figure out whether to use the distance part of the lens or the reading glasses part.
Objects would first appear in focus, then fuzzy, then clear, then fuzzy again, as my poor brain tried to interpret the mixed messages my eyes were sending to it. This drove me crazy of course. I had to return the glasses and ask for a redesign, lowering the bifocals. The company agreed to do this, and a few weeks later they presented me with a new pair that worked beautifully. Everything was clear both up close and far away. What a relief!
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Fuzzy lines
Your Christian walk can be like that. Often you have to make decisions about what is right and wrong, but the line between the two isn’t clear. It can get fuzzy. First you think you’re doing the right thing and your path is clear. Then you’re not sure. The culture is pulling you a different way. What used to be wrong now is commonly accepted, even encouraged.
Just like those faulty glasses, it can make you crazy. How do you know you’re on the right path? Am I pleasing God with my decisions, or have I wandered astray?
Maybe it’s time for a redesign, a new routine for your life that includes daily study of God’s Word. Within it are the answers to your dilemmas. There is no fuzziness about right and wrong in the Bible. You will see your intended path with total clarity. In the book of Isaiah, in the eighth chapter, the prophet writes “Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this Word, they have no light of dawn.”
I take my new glasses with me everywhere I go. I would be lost without them. We should feel the same way about that holy book. You don’t need an optometrist to be a faithful believer. You just need to see the Truth.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Ken Lass is a retired Birmingham television news and sports anchor and an award-winning columnist for numerous publications and websites.
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