‘Be
clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.’
Isaiah
52:11
One day a man was getting his windscreen washed at a
petrol station. When the attendant finished, the man said, ‘That’s a terrible
job. Re-do my windscreen - it’s as dirty as when you started.’ So, the
attendant wiped it again. The man looked it over and in frustration said, ‘That
window hasn’t changed a bit.’ The man’s wife was sitting next to him in the car
fuming. She reached over, pulled off his glasses, wiped them, and gave them
back to him. The attendant had been doing his job correctly. The man himself
was the problem all along. Spiritually speaking, the glasses you’re looking
through determine what you see, and how you see it.
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When you look through the
lens of jealousy and envy, you become resentful of the blessings of others.
When you look through the lens of judgementalism, you speak and act without
mercy and grace. When you look through the lens of fear and unbelief, you limit
God and forfeit what He can do for you. When you look through the lens of
selfishness, you put yourself first and your loved ones suffer. When you look
through the lens of negativity and cynicism, people begin to avoid you because
you’re not enjoyable to be around. ‘Be clean, you who bear the vessels of the
LORD.’ Just as your glasses need to be wiped clean from the contamination
around you, so do your heart and mind. How does this happen? Jesus said, ‘Now
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you’ (John 15:3 KJV).
Through prayer and daily Bible reading, your perspective on life is kept right.
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