How is your vision?

It's an irritation. Not really a problem, but it is certainly an irritation. I can't see as well as I once could. At times I struggle to focus. Sometimes it seems that I can't hold documents far enough away from me, in order to get my eyes to focus. And it sure seems like restaurants keep their lights way too dim for reading the fine print of their menus.

How is your vision?

Last week, Cory came into my office and asked me if I had a pair of reading glasses. Now to his defense he was reviewing a financial statement and the type-size was infinitesimally small. (Hear me when I say-Cory is not getting old). It's just that the type was so small that magnification was obligatory. He had on one pair of my glasses; and I had another pair on-when a co-worker, who shall remain nameless-walked in and started laughing. (The co-worker's initials are JP).

How is your vision?

When it comes to prayer, sometimes we just can't see, as we need to see. Sometimes when we pray, we do not see enough. In 2 Kings 3 there is a story of Israel at war. In fact, three kings came together to go to war against Moab. The Kings of Israel, Judah and Edom amassed their armies and marched against the Kingdom of Moab. But they soon ran into trouble. They found themselves deployed in a desert without sufficient supplies-mainly water. The men, the horses, the livestock, and the kings were literally parched from lack of water. So what did they do?

They did the right thing. They prayed. They asked God for what they needed. Like praying disciples asking for daily bread, they prayed for water. (And not a bad prayer when you consider that Moses too passed through the deserts of Moab-and he too prayed for miraculous water supply on his journey.

So it was a great prayer, right?

I love how God answered their prayer. Through Elisha, God answered and said, "I will give you water-but this is a small thing for Me! I will also give the Moabites into your hand."

What was God saying? They were "short-sighted" or "small-sighted" in their prayers. What they needed were the spectacles of faith that would have enabled to them to truly see what God could and would do on their behalf.

Are you guilty of "short-sighted" or "small-sighted" prayers? Sometimes I fear that the things I pray for are small things for God. What are you praying for that is God-sized in your life? What are you praying for in your church that is God-sized? Are you obsessing over the smallest of things and missing the great things that God wants to do through you?