Out of Focus

#1565

June 17, 2013

"Out of Focus"

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
  In the light of His glory and grace."

           

            The people I have known all my life, family, my parents friends (and they knew everyone), never called me Doctor, always by my first name, the greatest compliment to me. Early one morning, Mrs. Blanche Davis, (a fellow student of my father in high school) called me at home (Thomas, I must see you in your office as soon as possible, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm in bad shape. My blood pressure is very high). When she arrived at the office, she said, "everything is so blurred, nothing in focus." This was at a time when styles of eye glasses had changed. The gold -rimless types have been replaced by a combination of gold and plastic, difficult to distinguish between men's and women's styles. It turns out, that she has put on her husbands glasses (Mr. Clee Davis) and evidently he was wearing hers. A simple problem for one truly remarkable wonderful couple. The problem, in my life time, the world and everything in it has gotten out of focus.

            In thinking of focus, most people think of a camera attempting to get a good photograph. I'm from the time of light meters, Traveling the world, (eight-round world trips, passport stamped in 157 countries) this mostly blind man carried five cameras, one with a internal light meter. Traveling associates would often make sure my camera was focused; and I have remarkable photographs.

            Doctors, lawyers, architects, even denominations, are organized within certain bounds of focus. It is beyond comprehension that professional groups, uncompromised church leaders, even concerned parents, would let the world -flesh -devil so drastically change their focus.

            Of course, we live in a world of change. In our all inclusive government, a government which has changed totally in my lifetime, Power which was limited to Newtons laws -power brokers, -economic and political power, changed our way of thinking in 1945 with the introduction to atomic power. Now, everyday of our life, we must consider the power of terrorism.

            Most fat -sassy people, overfed, (50% of the American population diabetic) forget that one of every six children in the world goes to bed hungry. We loose focus that a family of four tends to throw away $2,275 of food annually. There is nothing as barbaric as a buffet, fat people gorging themselves on food, plate after plate. There are people on my street, who actually order pizza delivered to them. This writer has never ordered food delivered to him in his life, not in a five star hotel. The world has made a big deal of the new pope, Father Cardinal, preparing his own food. Many of us, even those of us who are blind, has always prepared our own food (someone asked President Abraham Lincoln WHY he was polishing his own shoes, the down to earth focused President said, "I am the one wearing them".)

            Parents have lost focus with children. Can one even imagine a "bender day" in elementary school, boys coming to school dressed as girls, and girls dressed as boys. The gay agenda, homosexual parasites of this world (Obama and his ilk) must be happy in the knowledge that children and parents eyes are so easily dimmed and dumbed. And we are conflicted about physiologically troubled youth, the physiologist now the pastor.

            On every doctors desk (Doctors cannot remember everything), a P.D.R. (Physicians Desk Reference) some hypochondriacs have such. In the small print these books that get thicker every year, we find everything except the admonition (the body has a remarkable ability to heal itself). Stay focused on God's healing ability.

            When anyone says to you, I do not believe in God, bring the matter of rain to their ears. Gods magnificent plan for the universe, 3/4 of the Earth's surface covered in sea water, this water evaporates from the sea, condensates in the air, through magnetism, salt removed rain droplets, one billion 600 million gallons to cover an area of inch of rainfall,  dropped so lightly that the most tender plant is not bothered. Rain, plotting of blood, man cannot duplicate God's powerful focus.

            Recently, long -dry summer, rain finally came to the country side where I was reared. How well I remember the rejoicing of the farmers when rain finally came -crops growing inches over night. BUT that country church where I was reared, the pastor from his air conditioned fox hole, not when I was a child but now paved roads, "the ditches are full of water we will cancel prayer meeting".

            The greatest focus supernatural, beyond the comprehension of the unbeliever, a sinner, saved by grace born again, when the righteousness of Christ invades your very body and you no longer see trough your own eyes, but the righteous eyes of the holy spirit of Christ. Your entire focus is Christ, not the old you, because you are a new creation. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17.  Most loose focus of the rare jewel of salvation, even the spectators -pretenders who inhabit church houses.

            Surely Americans knew their government, their political system, was totally out of focus when they saw Monica Lewinsky testifying in the well of the U.S senate. Since the impeachment of that president, things have worsened.

            Surely, those who study their bible remember that God led three million slaves out of Egypt simply because he wanted to save them. But, in the wilderness, because of their unbelief they all died, except for a few, who like in the flood of Noah's day were saved (Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives saved in the great Deluge of 5000 B.C.) God's book has all the answers, believers need to stay focused.

Dr. T.R. Morris
Lt. Col USA Retired
Blind/Dictated
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