When the Fog Lifts - Seeing Things More Clearly

It isn't at all unusual to begin the day with a view like this one. 

Often the fog is quite heavy across the valley below us.

 

 

 

In fact, most days we see fog, although it's not always quite so thick.

Some days, like today, it looks like this.

 

The fog doesn't last all day.  It doesn't even last all morning.

Once the sun peeks over the mountaintop behind our house, the fog begins to dissipate.

 

Eventually we have a view that looks more like this.

 

As I was noticing the changing view this morning, it occurred to me that our lives are often much like this view from my front porch.  Our thinking, our perspective on life, is often foggy.  Perhaps our view is clouded by the circumstances of our lives.  Perhaps we're too tired to think clearly.  Perhaps there is sin in our lives that needs to be dealt with before we can see clearly.

It occurs to me that perhaps it's something else.  The Psalmist wrote, in Psalm 119:18, "Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law."

Could it be that the reason we can't see things in our lives as clearly as we might like to is that we haven't spent enough time in the "instruction manual" for life?  Perhaps we need to spend more time reading - and studying - the directions!

Once we do that, perhaps we will see things more clearly. 

 

 

 

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."  (Psalm 119:105 ESV)