If I spend my entire earthly life in a state of sin, I should be worried that in eternity, when I try to present myself to God in a state of Grace, He will not be able to recognise me.
My second son was born with a lazy eye. A lazy eye occurs where the diameter of the eyeballs are not equal. Where that happens, the eyes both continue to function normally, but the brain decides that it is too much effort to obtain the visual feedback from both eyes, and so, instead of using both eyes to see, the brain decides to switch off one eye and just use the information conveyed from the remaining eye. This is why the condition is commonly called “lazy eye”, because only one eye works and this means that the remaining (non-working) eye is “lazy”.
Interestingly, though a person who has a lazy eye will be able to see with both eyes open, when the close the functional eye (and instead use the lazy eye), they are no longer able to see at all (even though the eye itself is completely normal). And so, if their working eye were ever damaged, that person would become completely blind.
A lazy eye can be treated thank God. And the way that it is treated is to have the child wear glasses and to cover the working eye with a patch for a couple of hours a day from the time the lazy eye is identified until the child turns seven years old (after which time their neural pathways in the brain are fully formed and cannot be altered through therapy). Then, after the child turns seven, the good eye is covered less frequently for a couple of years. By the time the child is nine or ten years old, if this treatment has succeeded, the child’s vision in their once lazy eye is perfect and they can see using both eyes.
When my son turned ten years old, his vision in his lazy eye was so greatly improved that he was no longer required to cover the working eye or even wear glasses at all.
When this happened to my son, it was a very difficult thing for him to leave his glasses behind. You see, all of his friends at school were used to seeing him with his glasses on. And when he no longer needed to wear them, he because worried that his friends would not be able to recognise him anymore.
And this made me think about my eternal life. You see, my son was worried that his friends would not recognise him without his glasses. And it occurs to me today that I should be worried that my God will not recognise me in eternity. After all, if I spend my entire earthly life in a state of sin, I should be worried that in eternity, when I try to present myself to God in a state of Grace, He will not be able to recognise me.
And so today, I consider who it is that I am. For if I could only determine this, I would be able to prepare myself for my Lord and God, who I would ask to recognise me as His child, when I wish to enter His kingdom…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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