6/2/26
From the NIH National Institute of Health:
Sight happens as light passes through the cornea. The cornea is shaped like a dome and bends light to help the eye focus. Some of this light enters the eye through an opening called the pupil. The iris controls how much light the pupil lets in.
Next, light passes through the lens. The lens works together with the cornea to focus light correctly on the retina. When light hits the retina, special cells called photoreceptors turn the light into electrical signals. These electrical signals travel from the retina through the optic nerve to the brain. Then the brain turns the signals into the images you see.
With so many connections and parts working together along with genetic mutations and genome errors passed along from generation to generation because of sin, it is easy to understand why we sometimes see things incorrectly. It is easy to understand why we sometimes do not see things that are there. It is easy to understand why we sometimes see things that are not there.
I have noticed this several times in my own life and in the life of a loved one who suffers from disease and often would not see correctly.
In my life, my faith and experience in and with the Lord has never failed me! Not even once! Just this week I looked at something and didn't see it lying there. My wife walked over and picked it up. Then I saw it. Just this week my faith in God brought two things together at different times that caused me to understand God more clearly.
So in the past week just like in every week faith in Christ has provided clarity while sight has been proven wrong.
If you research history using Scripture as your beginning you will understand by faith that Scripture and faith in it has never been accurately or continually proven wrong. In fact, just the opposite has always happened.
Let me introduce you to Dr Natalie Bennett. She earned a Ph.D. in immunology (Monash University, Australia) and did a postdoctoral stint at the University of Alabama, USA, followed by researching inflammatory bowel disease at DNAX Research Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Inc., in California. She became a full-time mum for a time, and now teaches bioscience (human anatomy and physiology) at an Australian university. She was asked the question, if she had ever had any struggles over science and her faith? Here is her answer. Not really. Everything I have ever learned about science has reinforced my faith in the true God of the Bible.
Sight is an amazing gift from God and in heaven it will be restored to the perfection upon which God created it before sin. However, in the meantime, you will understand much more clearly if you rely on faith. This comes from someone who loves looking and admiring God's creation but has seen much more of it and much more clearly when I truly walk by faith.
Our text today is simple and clear. I pray someone today will decide to follow it,
2 Corinthians 5:7 NASB95 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Although science disagrees with me, I still know that faithful Christians have better sight than all others. 🤓
Love Bro. Scott