Mark Sorensen It doesn’t happen with me often, but when it happens it’s never a fun experience.
About two minutes into our all staff chapel service earlier this week, I blinked and the contact lens in my left eye saw an opportunity for freedom. However, instead of falling out, it simply chose the comfort of slipping underneath my left eye ball. So, for the duration of worship, I sat quietly and reverently, singing the hymns of the church and hearing the Word of God proclaimed, whilst frantically digging under my eyeball trying to remove said rogue contact lens. Long story short, by the final “amen” it popped out of my eye and thus began a new chapter to the day: driving home looking like a pirate with one eye squinted and blind while the other eye guided me safely home.
I won’t lie. That drive home was a frustrating one. I had to really rely on that one good eye to get me home. If it were up to the left eye? Not a pretty situation.
Take a look at Psalm 121.
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Here’s the reality: we live in a broken world. Life is not always going to be easy. One moment, things are going great when, suddenly, the next moment you rub your eye the wrong way and you are deep into contact lens misery. The more I reflected on that mishap the more I realized how symbolic that drive home was for me in regards to my Christian faith. There are times I have made such a mess of things but, thankfully, I am never alone. I just need to keep my eye (note singular tense;) on the One who is able to carry me through. Praise God for this truth.
So, wherever you may be today, friend, EYES UP. Hear this. Your help comes from the Lord. He will not let your foot be moved. He is your keeper and your shade. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
Amen and amen.
