Life's Daily Challenge Devotional

Draw near till your vision is clear

“And he looked up and said, ‘I see men like trees walking.’ Then He put his hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everything clearly,” Mark 8:24-25.

To the one who longs to see,

So many things can interfere with your communion with God. Internal, external; spirit or flesh, there’s a lot bidding for your affection. Ideally, it would be nice to live in one unbroken flow of fellowship, but often, this is not the reality. Perhaps this is why vision often comes in small, sporadic, and seemingly disjointed pieces. You’d like to run with the vision, but it’s cloudy and the path is unclear.

This is where persistent pressing into God pays off. Jesus ministered to a man who regained partial vision. Where there once had been total darkness, now he saw men as trees. Apparently the man partially yielded himself to the Lord’s first touch. As some of his spiritual and emotional debris was removed, he began to see a little. Fortunately, the Lord cared enough to ask him what he saw. He was not satisfied with the man’s partial vision. The Lord commanded the man to look up. He did and he saw clearly!

God will not be satisfied with your cloudy vision either. He says, “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you,” (James 4:8 A). He wants you to turn your gaze past all of the distractions upward toward Him. There is nothing that clarifies vision more than consistent and persistent pressing into His presence. This is the place where distractions are silenced and vision becomes clear.