Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Fitness – Expanding Our Vision
Just because hardship and disappointment tends to cloud our vision does not mean that we need to go to an optometrist to see more clearly about how to live better. While others might help us to renew our thinking about things and how to improve upon our circumstances, this does not necessarily mean that we will gain better vision.
To grow in vision means this…It means we must begin to discover what we will not initially see within our physical surroundings. And it means that we need to understand the unseen things without reducing them to something of lesser meaning or to something predictable and manageable for our controlling interests. This commonly seen pattern defeats the purpose of developing a deeper vision about life.
To grow in vision means to grow by faith in catching a clearer glimpse of what the spiritual world actually represents and how it impacts our entire being, not just our lives but those around us as well. As we grow in vision, we will also grow in the power of faith. Tozer writes,
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man.
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