iPad. iPod. iPhone.
Mac. Dell. Thinkpad.
Google. Yahoo!. Firefox.
All this technology makes my head spin.
But it also makes my vision blurry.
Do your eyes ever get tired and burn with blurred vision from staring at a screen too long? If you think about it, our eyes are looking at screens most of our waking day.
For me, I start the day looking at my screen when my alarm goes off. One of my daily devotions is delivered to me on the app on my phone causing me to look at the screen again.
As I get ready for work, I continually look at the phone screen to see what time it is. I may write a blog or check my Facebook page on my computer therefore looking at another computer screen.
I look at the radio screen in my car and if I’m going somewhere unfamiliar, I look at the GPS screen. My job requires continuous work on a computer where I have two screens set up to maximize my time. I text, call and Facetime on my phone screen.
When I get home at night, I am staring at the large screen in my living room to catch up on the latest news or enjoy a few episodes of my favorite sitcom.
Now we have screens we wear on our wrists that talk to the screens we keep in our pocket and the ones that sit on our desks. It’s crazy!! No wonder our eyes get tired, itchy, red and blurry. We never seem to take the time to look up from our massive number of screens to just look out into the distance to refocus; to enjoy the beauty of what’s around us. There is more to life than screens.
God is waiting for us to take our eyes off of the worldly things that cause us blurred vision and to focus on the One who can give us clear vision. The world continues to blur our thinking and our vision with all the ways of the evil one. There are so many things clamoring for our attention. The devil wants us to be confused and blurry eyed all the time so that we are constantly looking to the world for the answers.
But Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” He is All. He can clear our blurry vision and clean out the cobwebs of confusion. If you are seeing blurred vision and not sure which way to turn, open your Bible, look for a Bible-based church and call out to Jesus.
He is the correction goggles that clears our vision.
iPad? iPod? iPhone? Nope. Eye on Jesus!
(*And as a trademark professional, I must add that iPad, iPad, iPhone and Mac are all registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. Dell is a trademark of Dell, Inc. Thinkpad is a registered trademark of Lenovo, Inc. Google is a registered trademark of Google, LLC. Yahoo! is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc. Firefox is a registered trademark of Mozilla Foundation. 🙂 )
