Two Eyes. Prioritized Focus.

God had some very good reasons for giving us two eyes. Here’s one of them:

Have you ever sat behind someone in a church service, and you can’t see the preacher, cuz’ someone’s head is in the way? So you lean over just far enough so at least one eye can see him. And the person behind you might be doing the same thing, so maybe you wouldn’t lean so far that both eyes can see him, out of consideration for the person behind you. So one eye sees a preacher up there, but the other eye sees the back of somebody’s head. But there’s no argument between them, because they’re both seeing what’s true… just from different perspectives. There IS a preacher up there, AND there IS a head in front of you. The preacher is important. The back of somebody’s head is not. The brain picks up both inputs, prioritizes the view that’s important, and effectively ‘blocks out’ the other. It then combines that with the input from all the other senses, so that you can make smart, timely, right decisions.

Often, our spiritual senses need to operate in the same way. Both eyes are open. Both are working. But you focus on what’s important. You still ‘see’ the distractions, but they don’t block your vision of what you need to see. When watching and listening to a preacher, you might ‘see’ the diamonds and the Rolex watch, or the holes in the jeans, or the robe, or the hair, or the tattoos; but whether you personally see these as ‘attractions’ or ‘distractions’, they don’t keep you from seeing and acting on what’s important… the truth of God’s Word, that will make you free!