How is Your Vision?
- Noah Olson
- Jan 19
- 3 min read
Abraham Maslow noted, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Victor said, “Get the right perspective. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, ‘He's so big we can never kill him.’ David looked at the same giant and though, ‘He's so big I can't miss.’” Marilyn Von Savont wrote, “The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because you’re not close enough to see the dirt.” William Arthur Ward said, “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” J. Sidlow Baxter observed, “Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” The great inventor Thomas Edison said “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Vision is the lens through which we can experience beauty. Note some facts about vision:
About 300 million people in the world have a form of colorblindness.
Babies do not fully see color until about they are about four months old.
The average adult that is wake for 16 hours will blink somewhere between 13,000-16,000 times.[1]
Brown is the most common eye color.
Every hour, eyes detect over 36,000 pieces of information.
Eyes never stop working, even when someone is asleep.[2]
God created the eyes (Psalm 94:9; Proverbs 20:12). The eyes are the some of most complex parts of the body. He created vision for our benefit and seeks for us to use our eyes for His glory. What we see is important to Him. But we don’t need to see to have vision. We can have good vision without sight. We should want God to open our eyes to a right perspective. “The noted English architect Sir Christopher Wren was supervising the construction of a magnificent cathedral in London. A journalist thought it would be interesting to interview some of the workers, so he chose three and asked them this question, "What are you doing?" The first replied, "I'm cutting stone for 10 shillings a day." The next answered, "I'm putting in 10 hours a day on this job." But the third said, "I'm helping Sir Christopher Wren construct one of London's greatest cathedrals."[3]
Perspective is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as “a particular way of considering something.” The way we use our eyes to look at the world matters. William Shakespeare said that the eyes are the window to the soul. Jesus preached, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, they whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matthew 6:22-23). God made the eyes, so He wants us to use them to look at things with a right perspective.
Since we do not see as God sees (Isaiah 55:8-9), it is easy to view everything through human eyes (Proverbs 21:2). God wants us to seek to improve our vision by looking through His lenses (Colossians 3:1-2). We are like individual workers on a huge painting. We only see the part to which we are assigned, but God stands on a ladder and can see the whole piece.[4] God sees all and knows all, therefore we should want to take a look through His eyes. In a song entitled “Give Me Your Eyes” Brandon Health wrote “Give me your eyes for just one second, Give me your eyes so I can see, everything I keep missing.” The right perspective is the heavenly and eternal perspective.[5]
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Endnotes
[4]Leland Reed.
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