Seeing Beyond Life’s Obstacles

Not long ago most of the major television news channels ran an incredible story about a young child named Don who lost his eyesight to cancer.  Ultimately, he learned to play cutinsight video games, ride a bike, skate and engaged in sports.  How you ask?  Well he learned to see using a method called echolocation.  By clicking his tongue he was able to navigate around and identify objects, play games and more.  Doctors found an amazing resemblance between the methods the boy mastered and the way dolphins navigate the ocean. [pullquote4 align=”right” style=”width:300px;”]That Which We Need Most
O come ye saints whose heart He has lavished,
The Omnipotent One that the Prophets foretold;
We bring to Him the dreams we have ravished,
Our worldliness in exchange, His glory behold.
Forsaking all, desiring to see His wondrous face;
Counting all our worldly gains as empty and as loss,
Embracing the light of his eternal grace,
In Him, may we be purged like silver from the dross.[/pullquote4] This tool is known as echolocation or dolphin sonar.  By listening to the echoes of the sound they produce, dolphins can locate objects and fish with remarkable success.  A dolphin is able to create an acoustical picture of its environment using the pulse of ultrasonic sound which bounces off objects.God had given Don a unique ability to see even though he lost his eyesight.  He lost his battle with cancer but no doubt is now in heaven with a new pair of eyes.  I’ll bet if you could travel to heaven right now and ask him if he would he be willing to come back to earth and see like other boys, he would probably say, “No thanks.  No way.  Look around you.  Who would want to leave heaven?”  Like Don and God’s amazing creature, the dolphin, may God grant us the ability to see through the clutter and debris in our lives.  May God grant us spiritual echolocation in order to navigate through life’s barriers and spend eternity looking at the face of the Lamb of God — the most beautiful sight ever!Like David, may we maintain practical holiness and Godliness.  Like Moses, help us to see God in our everyday lives.  Like Martha may we cultivate a spiritual depth and maturity despite our past, and like Paul, may we never sacrifice our integrity or our reputation for any reason.Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone (Deut. 34:7).

Hope gives us spiritual sight to see impossible things made possible though great obstacles lie before us.