“…one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.” (John 9:25b KJV)
Let me start your workweek off with a smile by means of this Monday Short meditation. Perhaps you will go beyond smiling and even find yourself laughing at this Baby Boomer writer. That’s okay! Laughter is good for you!
Friday morning, I used a new computer for that day’s virtual Victory Class. Victory Class is what we call our Bible Study classes at our church. Earlier in the week I used my wife’s small laptop for the evening classes on Wednesday and Thursday. In the earlier classes, everything technical was working, sound and visual wise. But Friday morning, on my new computer, I could not get the video to work. I mean, I could see the other participants, but I could not see myself. To the participants, it looked like the camera was pointing to the ceiling.
Sis. M., a leader at the church who faithfully attends the Friday class, and has used her computer numerous times to communicate with her college students, all future teachers, tells me to look for a video icon. I see one and it was indicating that it was okay. The second time she told me to look for it up at the top. So, I look and I see what I thought was a button that I had to slide to get the video working. It did not slide. After trying to no avail, I looked a little bit closer. There was a message in white print on a red background. Guess what? It was a sticker, not a video control icon. And the message said, “Please remove.”
I removed it and all of a sudden my picture shows up on the screen. I can see myself. Sis. M. with the rest of the class laughing, recited the excerpt from John’s gospel in the opening verse, “I once was blind, but now I see!” I immediately said, “There is a meditation in this experience somewhere.”
Indeed there is! Some of the difficulties we have in seeing is because we need Jesus to open our eyes. When we don’t think it will be alright, we, believers, need Jesus to open our eyes. When we want to react the way we should not act, we simply need Jesus to open our eyes. When we think something achievable is impossible, we surely need Jesus to open our eyes. Whatever we are going through and it is not working like it ought to, we clearly need Jesus to open our eyes. When we are starting to gradually drift away from the church, we just need Jesus to open our eyes! And when He does, you will be amazed and it will be appropriate to say, “…one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.”
Let the Lord open your eyes this week! Did you get your smile, as well as get a little instruction or inspiration? I hope so! Be blessed!
“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength.” (Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV)
Mark L. King