Sometimes I wear glasses. Without them, my eyes can’t see very far and I often stumble into stuff or trip over things. With my glasses on, I see more clearly, unless my glasses get spattered by mud or rain or any number of other things.
Just imagine that you are the glasses, designed for other people to help them see God, someone they could not see without you. They know that with you they can see sharper, more clearly. But you have this nasty habit of attracting dust, grime, spots and scratches, making it harder to see whatever they are looking at.
In order to be clean, really clean, you need God’s special solution. It cleans up all the muck, smooths over the rough places, and leaves you sparkling. That’s the process of sanctification, the process of being made holy. God knows how to return you to the original, the created design, and then you can be a useful lens for others to see God. Somehow the process of being made whole and being holy are linked.
For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:9
Are you a clean lens, or has something splattered all over you? Ask God to continue the cleansing process, so that you can be made new and really help people see.
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