A New Perspective for an Old Problem

One morning this summer, I arose early to go to the farm and spray weeds. It was about an hour and a half before sunrise. After putting on my work clothes and shoes, I grabbed my glasses and headed out the door. I took off driving and immediately I was confronted by near blindness. I had to get within about 30 feet of a road sign to read it—and you all know how big those things are. My first thought was, “Wow, somehow my eyesight deteriorated overnight. Is this what it is like to go blind?” When I stopped at Loves to get something to drink, I reached up to my glasses to clean them. I didn’t have lenses in my glasses. I could see, but not really. And that is exactly what Isaiah said as quoted by both Jesus and the apostles. “So when they did not agree among…