Cataracts and Jesus

First of all...let me share what just happened to me...by using the description found on Wikipedia.

An eye with a cloudy cataract

Cataract surgery is the removal of the natural lens of the eye (also called "crystalline lens") that has developed an opacification, which is referred to as a cataract. Metabolic changes of the crystalline lens fibers over time lead to the development of the cataract and loss of transparency, causing impairment or loss of vision. Many patients' first symptoms are strong glare from lights and small light sources at night, along with reduced acuity at low light levels. During cataract surgery, a patient's cloudy natural lens is removed and replaced with a synthetic lens to restore the lens's transparency.[1]


Following surgical removal of the natural lens, an artificial intraocular lens implant is inserted (eye surgeons say that the lens is "implanted"). Cataract surgery is generally performed by an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) in an ambulatory (rather than inpatient) setting, in a surgical center or hospital, using local anesthesia (either topical, peribulbar, or retrobulbar), usually causing little or no discomfort to the patient. Well over 90% of operations are successful in restoring useful vision, with a low complication rate.[2] Day care, high volume, minimally invasive, small incision phacoemulsification with quick post-op recovery has become the standard of care in cataract surgery all over the world. (Wikipedia)

Looks like fun, doesn't it?

For an animated view of the surgical process, check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/MqwyoXBwFSI

Ok...so I just had my right eye done last week, and I have to get the left one done next month. Right now, it is still painful, but I have no more glare from headlights, etc in my right eye. The colors are brighter and objects appear much sharper in focus (at least in the distance) I will still need reading glasses for up-close things.


I didn't realize that my eyesight had gotten as bad as it was. I didn't realize that the colors were fading. I did realize, however, that things weren't quite as clear, but figured that with another upgrade to my eye glasses, things would be fine again. But all of this has set me to thinking.


How am I doing with my spiritual sight? Perhaps, without realizing it, sin has begun to dull my picture of Jesus and He is going out of focus. Sometimes it seems as if my spiritual life has lost some of the color and my view has gone dim. Maybe its because I'm looking too much to the world and not enough towards Jesus. Maybe Satan is trying to cause a glaring sin to blind me and I don't realize it. Whatever the reason, perhaps I need a cataract surgery of the heart. Maybe my cloudy spiritual lens needs to be replaced with a fresh, new IOL that refocuses on Jesus. Maybe Jesus needs to do some phacoemulsification with my spiritual vision. Perhaps that old tune is just what the Dr. ordered.


Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace.

I would rather the things of this earth grow dim than my spiritual vision. So sign me up Jesus, for a spiritual cataract surgery and reset my vision on You.

Look pretty pitiful, don't I?