At church this morning in the middle of our prayer time I was thinking about the lesson I learned two weeks ago about "who is my neighbor." It occurred to me that it is such a challenge to continually see the world through the eyes of God. As I reflected on this I was lead to write this down:
"Once there was a girl who had cataracts. It came on slowly as this kind of thing does. Her vision became cloudier and cloudier. It happened so slowly it was almost imperceptible until one day she realized she could no longer see. She felt like she was in a heavy fog. She had to keep looking down at her feet in order to see where she was walking. She isolated herself by the mere fact that she had to focus solely on herself and where she was going. So, she never saw the people (the needs) that crossed her path."
So, the service went on and Pastor Mark finally stood to present the morning message. Luke 7:36-50 was the text. This is the story about the prostitute who came to the Pharisee's house and washed Jesus' feet with her tears.
Pastor Mark talked about how the Pharisee didn't see the prostitute the way Jesus saw her. Jesus asked the Pharisee, "Do you see this woman?"
Whew. I stared down at my notebook where I had written the little story about the girl with the cataracts about 30-minutes earlier.
Perhaps the great Physician is asking for each one of us to come to Him for an eye examine. Do you see the world around you through the Savior's eyes? Or have you allowed your spiritual eyes to develop the film of selfishness, self-centeredness and distraction. Do you have spiritual cataracts?
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