Vision. Now this is a word that has been with me every day this week.
I was thinking about how my eyesight had changed since I had my cataracts done. Everything is so much sharper. But then I had to go for a medical to renew my driver's license. I found that my astigmatism was worse. I need to have my prescription tweaked. And that brought before me that seeing is both perspective (what does it look like to me; from here) and spiritual. Sometimes both at the same time. There are many times in life this can happen. Looking at a newborn baby that is hours old. A sunset in a setting where you have had a significant experience. A person in a wheelchair who cannot access a building they need into to. There are many places. One of these is in John 9.
In this chapter there is a man born blind. Jesus physically heals him. And then the trouble starts. Because what happens next is people begin to enquire about how this happened. Some believe and want further information. But they refuse to acknowledge the source of healing. In other places, such as Mark 5, they refuse to believe it is the same person. In this case, there is such a transformation that it cannot be the same individual. In another case, people are absolutely certain of the facts, doggedly so. This happens in Mark 5:21-43. With Jesus what you see is not always what you get in relationship to other people. Assumptions can creep in that colour our vision of what really is going on. I have friends that swear by the fact that blonde coffee has less caffeine than dark roast. Not true. Many factors go into the caffeine levels of coffee. Roasting is just one of them. So it is with Jesus. Sometimes he is direct in what he says. Matthew 13:10-17 is an example of this. Sometimes what he says takes much more thought. Matthew 13:24-35 is an example of this. In all of this, he is creating visions of what God is like and how the kingdom works.
Now, what visions does God have for you and me today? Pr. Scott
