The Problem Isn't Fixed

When I was in 3rd grade, my mom took me to the eye doctor, because I was complaining of my eyes hurting and blurriness. The doctor said I had bad eye sight, so they gave me glasses. As I got older, my eyesight got worse, as it does, and so I got stronger prescriptions, to help alleviate the problem. Eventually I even got a pair of glasses that doubled as sun glasses, which I thought was pretty darn cool.

But it didn't fix the problem.

My eyesight was still bad: my vision was blurry, at a distance, and regardless of how long or how often I wore my glasses, whenever I took them off, my world still looked the same.

I think the heart is like that. We get hurt or damaged, and so we build walls around our hearts to try to "remedy" the problem, to be able to function. We pretend we don't feel pain, we act like it doesn't matter, but when we take those "glasses" off, we realize our view of the world around us is still warped from the twisted sight of our heart's eyes, caused by the damage that has been done to us. We haven't fixed the problem, what is actually causing us to see things incorrectly. We see the world as a dark and dangerous place, which it can be, but that's not how it's SUPPOSED to be.

The only way to fix bad vision permanently is with corrective surgery, like LASIK surgery or some other form of laser surgery. The same can be said for the heart. The only way to truly fix the damage that has been done is so remove the walls, that HIDE the damage, and get down to the core root of the problem and remove it. The only one who can truly do that is Christ, because, like a trained physician, he is truly able to understand the inner workings of our hearts, and knows his way around well enough to find the problem, and has the training and knowledge to fix it (c'mon, he CREATED the heart).

My prayer for myself is that as God continues to work on my heart, he'll heal my eyes as well and bring both to full restoration, so my eyes, which are "the entrance to the soul", may be a living testimony of what he has done to my heart, and I may show people how I was able to throw aside both pairs of "glasses", and live in true healing and perfect sight of the world around me.

~Char