(Dave is retiring after years of ministry to Resurrection, for the last 13 years at our West location. He wrote this beautiful blog post in 2018, so alert readers will note that he is now 55!)
I've always taken great pride in my eyesight. I'm 52 years old and still don't wear glasses or contacts. In the last couple of years, if the lighting is dim and the print is too small, I do have to make it brighter in the room in order to read what, just a few years ago, I could have read easily.
I'm certain as I continue to age, this "dim sight" will be more acute. That is part of the aging process.
We, as Christians, are called to know, love and serve God. That is the journey. I've been a Christian my whole life. First, as a child of a pastor, raised in the church. Then, through confirmation and searching, I gave my life to Christ as a young man.
I think back to what I believed about God when I was a 20 year old. I was certainly fired up about God, but my Biblical knowledge was more dim. I knew many of the stories, but had yet to make these stories a Biblical faith. I believed in God and sought God, but our relationship was new and mysterious.
I hadn't discerned my calling from God. I didn't know how to recognize God speaking to my mind. I didn't know many things. There was a fire burning, but much growth and sanctification was yet to come.
As I said earlier, I'm now 52. I look back to when I was 20, 30, 40 and even 50. My journey has been a blessing. God is still mysterious and I have so much still to learn, but I can see where God has led me and what God's Spirit has done in my life. I can see how dim the mirror was when I was 20.
I have a friend, L. T. Walls, who is 92, forty years older than me. I believe L. T. sees pretty clearly. He's what I want to be when I grow up. L. T. and Jesus are personal friends and at 92, he's learned so much more than me, experienced so much more and loves so much more than me. He knows, loves and in many ways, serves God so much more than me even though he can't get around as much as he used to.
Jesus calls us to be the Light of the World. That happens as the Holy Spirit guides us in letting God's sanctifying love shine through us. My prayer is that God shines in me. My part is to continue growing, continue loving, continue serving and continue surrendering my life so that as Paul states, "I have been crucified with Christ, and it's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20).
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