Farsighted Vision That Looks To Heaven

But whoever does not have them [these qualities] is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
2 Peter 1:9

Try to focus on two different objects at the same time, and you’ll succeed in seeing neither clearly. It’s like having one eye nearsighted and the other farsighted.

The result? Frustration and double vision—the same diagnosis given to the “person [who] is double-minded and unstable in all they do” (James 1:8).

The only cure is single-minded focus—picking one path and sticking to it. Dwight L. Moody explains the pitfalls of trying to follow both forks in a road.

WALK WITH DWIGHT L. MOODY
“The church is full of people who want one eye for the world and the other for the kingdom of God. Therefore, everything is blurred; one eye is long and the other is short; all is confusion.

“Abraham was longsighted; he had glimpses of the celestial city.

“Stephen was longsighted; he looked clear into heaven. The world had no temptation for him. He had put the world under his feet.

“Paul also had longsighted vision; he had been caught up and had seen things unlawful for him to utter, things grand and glorious.

“When the Spirit of God is on us, the world looks very empty; the world has a very small hold on us, and we begin to let go our hold of it and lay hold of things eternal.

“This is the church’s need today. Oh, that the Spirit might come in mighty power and consume all the vile dross there is in us.”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
Abraham, Stephen, Paul and others saw better things ahead than the things of this world. The Spirit of God controlled the focus of their lives.

How’s your spiritual vision? Are you—like Abraham—looking “forward to the city … whose architect and builder is God” (Hebrews 11:10)?

That’s the only path worth focusing on and following eternally.