The Glasses
We all wear glasses.
Invisible glasses as
window panes of our mind.
Through these windows our
mind we see a vision of the world, a vision painted in the image of the
windows.
These windows shape our
walk through life, just as our walk through life shapes the windows.
They determine how we
experience the world, just as our experience of the world determines the
clarity of our view through the windows.
The glasses paint life in
certain colors, just as we paint the lenses of these glasses in the color of
our walk through life.
Our entire life went into
the fabrication of these glasses.
The result of our effort
is presented to us in the vision we behold through our glasses.
These glasses were given
their shape and form by the environment we were placed in.
Some glasses turned out
very warped, because they were forged in a warped mold which brought forth
these glasses.
Other glasses appear very
average and normal, blending in perfectly with the others, yet if you look
through their lenses you will see a distortion of the picture of the world as
it really is.
You notice the distortion
because you are accustomed to a different view through the windows of your
mind.
We have assisted in the
fabrication of these glasses by donating each fiber of the emotion rising from
our reaction to the mold we were placed in.
Each of these fibers were
integrated in the various layers of the lens, and they colored the lens in the
image of the mold.
Thousands, millions of
fibers we layer together as we go through life, and they present to us their colored view of life.
What we see is not life
itself, nor do we behold the world.
We behold the color of
the lens, and what we see is the impression created by the collective of
fibers.
We see an image painted
by strands of emotions buried and hidden in the mosaic of the lenses.
Each day we wake up
wearing the same old familiar glasses, and even in our dreams these glasses
paint the dream in the image of their colors.
We may go through the
same routine today as yesterday, in the exact same setting of our environment,
yet our glasses are able to paint them in completely different colors.
We may behold a
depressing view where the day before we saw happiness, and yet, nothing in the
world really has changed to merit a different classification.
The only thing which
changed was the view we beheld through our glasses.
The world today is as it
was yesterday, yet we do not see the world, neither today, nor yesterday.
We saw a vision presented to us by our
glasses, and this vision has become the home of our world, the seat of who we
are.
We do not know the world,
nor can we know it, because we are trapped in a projection of our glasses,
visitors in a still life detached from the motion of real life.
Sometimes these glasses
are like binoculars.
We see things close by
which are far of, and when we look through the other end, we consider things to
be far away from us when in reality they are within reach.
Sometimes our glasses
become so thick and tainted with the colored strands of fiber that they
paralyze us.
They can keep us frozen
in our tracks.
Sometimes our glasses
become so obtuse with color that we see death where life is flowing, and we are
inebriated by the color.
In the end, the glasses
create an eternal amnesia of the reality of life.
We react to what we see,
thus putting more layers of colored fiber on the glasses.
The glasses have become
our glass cage which keeps us trapped and prevents us from knowing life.
Ultimately, the glass
cage transforms itself into our glass coffin.
We begin to wonder about
what life really is, since everyone sees life differently.
We ponder on the
possibility and the ramifications of the relativity of life.
Yet, to what have we made
life relative?
That's the question we
cannot answer since we are trapped in the view of our cage and cannot see
beyond.
Unless someone will
correct the glasses so that we can have a clear view of the panorama of our
life.
Yet the lenses of our
glasses are thick and resistant to change.
We have grown so
accustomed to their presence that we have become our glasses and what they tell
us about the world.
To put aside our glasses
means to put aside ourselves, and how can we do that?
How can we change our
glasses when we do not know the kind of glasses which can give us a view of
life as it really is?
We need Someone who
carries perfect glasses, glasses which do not distort the reality of life, but
which give an accurate view of life as it really is.
The One who carries these
glasses knows exactly which glasses can give us a correct view of life, since
He Himself fabricated these glasses fiber upon fiber, just as we have made our
tainted glasses.
Only whereas the fibers
we used for our glasses cause a distortion of life and truth, Yahshua uses
crystal clear clean fibers which are part of perfectly clear lenses.
He made those glasses with the materials handed to Him by the Master Glassmaker, exactly in accordance with the instructions given to Him.
If He can make glasses
for us so that we can wear them, we too will finally be able to see the real
life.
What we need are these Son-glasses,
the only ones which can give us a perfect vision through the untainted lenses
of faith.
Without these glasses we will always see an image of make-belief through the tainted window panes of our minds.
Without these glasses we will always see an image of make-belief through the tainted window panes of our minds.
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