Week 45 2 Corinthians
I just accept when I’m reading through that a) some things will be clear to me, and b) other things won’t.
I think of it as Bible Reader’s Disability. I’m not sure how common it is but I have it.
There’s at least two factors contributing to BRD. One is a Factual-Informational-Knowledge Incapacity (I just don’t get what’s being said). Another is when my mental focus volleys from fuzzy-to-sharp, in-and-out, on-off. This is Unfocussed & Irrelevant-Tangent Driftage (I slide off-topic thinking about something else).
Anyway, I got past this today when I saw the line: we live by believing and not by seeing. Another version said: we walk by faith, not by sight.
It caught my attention. I stopped reading to think. If I believe in the Lord I have to be walking by faith.
Technically-speaking I get to keep my normal sensory abilities in the material world – I can still see – but in addition I have an enhanced kind of sightedness. Normal-vision plus a new extra-normal-vision. And it’s on me to start using the one I wasn’t born with.
A great example of this is Noah. The Lord told him to build a ship. A normal-vision Noah wouldn’t have wasted labour-power or building materials. But extra-normal-vision Noah went ahead with his weird project while his neighbours watched their goofy shipbuilder in blind wonder.
Note: quote from 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT & NASB). Noah is in Genesis 7-9.