We Will See Clearly Some Day

 Last week I had my yearly appointment with my retina specialist, Dr. Casey. I have diabetic retinopathy. After having my eyes dilated and and a bazillion pictures made of my eyeballs I was taken to an examining room where I waited for Dr. Casey. I didn’t have to wait very long before Dr. Casey came in for our 15 minute conference. He looked at the pictures of my eyeballs for a few seconds,  and then scanned through the pictures that had been take the years prior to last week. 

Dr. Casey sat down on a stool in front of me, and with what I assumed was a very powerful magnifying glass looked into both my eyes. When he finished he told me that my eyes had not changed a bit in the last seven years. He said my eyes were in great shape, especially since I have had diabetes for over fifty years. He told me to come back in a year and asked me if I had any questions. 

I said, “Dr. Casey, I have been having trouble focusing on things far away. For instance, I sing in the church choir, and when I look out over the congregation the faces of the people are blurry. I think I might need glasses.” 

He replied, “I don’t think you need to spend four or five hundred dollars for glasses. You are probably like me. You would either lose them or break them. Just keep using your readers.”  

I guess his advice makes sense. There are many things we are not meant to see or understand. We go through life with blurry vision worrying about things we can do nothing about. We try to understand things about ourselves and others for which we do not have the ability to find the answers, and we struggle to know spiritual truths that only God knows.  He will not share with man. About these matters Jesus says, “Do not worry. Seek first the Kingdom of God.” In our days on this earth God will reveal to us and make clear what we need to know. The apostle Paul wrote about our limited spiritual vision, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” And Paul also said that we are to live by faith, not by sight.

One day we will see clearly, and what a glorious day that will be. Our eyes will be opened, and we will see amazing wonders which are impossible for us to comprehend now. In this time God has given us the vision to see what he wants us to see. Don’t try to find a pair of spiritual glasses to see what you wouldn’t understand if you could see it. I guess my doctor was right. It’s alright to see somethings dimly.