Eyes that see

I was playing golf last week and one of the guys hit a ball that was a little off, don’t worry mine were worse usually. Well we were watching his ball so we could find it when we went looking for it. I lost it after it started to come back down against some low clouds. Luckily one of the other guys was able to pick it back up. John made a comment that at his age he didn’t have the eyes to track the ball like he did when he was younger. He said he played with his nephew earlier this summer, and he could see way out there and hardly ever lost sight of the ball. He could track it until it stopped rolling. Wow to have those young eyes again. We got up to where the ball was and it was in a good spot and there was a clear path to the green. He hit it on and pared the hole, that’s the goal when we play golf par or better.

That started me to start thinking about my walk with Christ, and how as things are happening in my life and I don’t have the eyes to see what goes on all the time. Just like the shot that was what we thought was a little off was ok when we got up to it. It wasn’t in the middle of the fairway away from all trouble sitting up just waiting for us to come up a hit it again. We want our life to be down the middle of the fairway and ALWAYS out of trouble. How many of us know that doesn’t happen?

We grow through trouble, we are stretched and gain strength through perseverance while we are in trouble. God is not a puppet master who says to himself what trouble can I make this guy go through so I can laugh at him as he struggles and sometimes fail. Rather he has eyes that see all, which guide us through because we don’t see the end result. And one of the most amazing things happen also, the end result is usually better than we could do on our own. While my eyes don’t always work the best and I can’t see all. God’s eyes work perfectly.