After first sight
May 29, 2003 | 12:00am
There fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once. Acts 9:18
In 1991, two operations restored Shirl Jennings sight after 40 years of blindness. His family and friends reacted with absolute euphoria, but the next day Shirls fiancée recorded in her diary that he was "trying to adjust to being sighted . . . Not able to trust vision yet . . . Like [a] baby just learning to see, everything new, exciting, scary, unsure of what seeing means."
Although Shirl knew people and objects through his other senses, he could not recognize them by sight. People expected him to be fully adjusted immediately, but he was trying to figure out what everything was.
Isnt it much the same for us when we receive Gods gift of salvation?
After Paul was blinded on the road to Damascus, the restoration of his physical sight became a powerful metaphor for the new spiritual sight he received from the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 9:3-17). We dont know much about Pauls three years in Arabia following his conversion (Galatians 1:15-18), except that it must have been a period of profound relearning about life and God.
It takes time to grow in our relationship with Christ, and to see with the new spiritual eyes He has given us. So lets be patient with each other, and especially with every new Christian we meet along our journey of joyful discovery. David C. McCasland
More about Jesus let me learn,
More of His holy will discern;
Spirit of God, my teacher be,
Showing the things of Christ to me. Hewitt
READ: Galatians 1:11-18
Conversion is a step of faith; maturity is a journey of faith.
The Bible in one year:
2 Chronicles 7-9
John 11:1-29
In 1991, two operations restored Shirl Jennings sight after 40 years of blindness. His family and friends reacted with absolute euphoria, but the next day Shirls fiancée recorded in her diary that he was "trying to adjust to being sighted . . . Not able to trust vision yet . . . Like [a] baby just learning to see, everything new, exciting, scary, unsure of what seeing means."
Although Shirl knew people and objects through his other senses, he could not recognize them by sight. People expected him to be fully adjusted immediately, but he was trying to figure out what everything was.
Isnt it much the same for us when we receive Gods gift of salvation?
After Paul was blinded on the road to Damascus, the restoration of his physical sight became a powerful metaphor for the new spiritual sight he received from the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 9:3-17). We dont know much about Pauls three years in Arabia following his conversion (Galatians 1:15-18), except that it must have been a period of profound relearning about life and God.
It takes time to grow in our relationship with Christ, and to see with the new spiritual eyes He has given us. So lets be patient with each other, and especially with every new Christian we meet along our journey of joyful discovery. David C. McCasland
More about Jesus let me learn,
More of His holy will discern;
Spirit of God, my teacher be,
Showing the things of Christ to me. Hewitt
READ: Galatians 1:11-18
Conversion is a step of faith; maturity is a journey of faith.
The Bible in one year:
2 Chronicles 7-9
John 11:1-29
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