SIGHT

VISION PROBLEMS

Friday, October 25, 2019

Matthew 6:19-34 … 22 The light of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! ...

  Something that can accompany physical maturation is vision acuity. It may require simply installing brighter lighting. More seriously, cataracts, ridges on lens, macular degeneration, glaucoma, an eyeball implosion such as I experienced, or a number of other combined dimming problems. There are however treatments available to forestall, alleviate, or even remedy physical vision problems . . . and most people in developed nations eagerly take advantage of them. I have.

  When it comes to spiritual sight, the opposite is true: Apart from God’s Written Prescription, we beginning at birth develop flawed vision; and most do not avidly seek God’s Remedy. (Mt.7:13-14)

*George Barna conducted a poll to determine interest in biblical worldview. The results shocked me. A mere eight percent of evangelicals reported an interest in materials about biblical worldview!”

  What is this “biblical worldview” spoken of?

  In answering the query "What is a Christian worldview?"  gotQuestions?org explains “A “worldview” refers to a comprehensive conception of the world from a specific standpoint. A “Christian worldview,” then, is a comprehensive conception of the world from a Word-based standpoint. An individual’s worldview is his “big picture,” a harmony or cacophony of all his beliefs about the world. It is his way of understanding reality. One’s worldview is the basis for making daily decisions and is therefore extremely important.”

  Worldview is how we see, interpret, all things have to do with life, including Scripture. Once ingrained our worldview typically produces automatic assumptions . . . often without effort for thoughtful investigation.

  One example of this in the Bible is Nathanael’s “Can there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?” (Jn.1:46) Bias, like young Nate we don’t leave home without it.

  Auto-assumption is no less in practice today, even when it comes to Christians and God’s Word. Consider Matthew 5:45 when you’ve read it. Did you, do you automatically assume the rain spoken of is always gentle productive showers? Or could it include storms, possibly even the rain that fell on the just and unjust as recorded in Genesis 7? Consider without-study too common held views of Isaiah 53:5; Romans 8:28, Philippians 4:13.

  My physical vision is worsening. My worldview is not perfect. I’m still working at it.

  Many decades ago before my introduction to “worldview” I comprehended that God wanted me to see all as He sees. I recognized this could only be accomplished through His view shared in Scripture.

  Soon thereafter I saw that even this wasn’t the complete way to see; but that it is absolutely essential to regularly constantly study, understand correctly, and apply His Word in order to continue developing the proper view of all things; be it who He is, who I am, people, life, death, sickness, problems, relationships, material, wealth, health, decision making, truth, inventory, attitude, faith, forgiveness, surrender, faithfulness, victorious living, charity, resistance and/ot\r rebellion etc.

  If I don’t see His Prescription correctly I can never hope to see all things clearly!  EBB4

*George Barna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barna  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barna_Group