3/8/26 - WiFi Land / DIMMING EYES

Good morning Wi-Fi land all over the world. Today we greet you in the name of he who sees all and yet whose eyes are pure than to behold evil. He's the son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. To whom be glory both now and forever more. Amen.

Well, recently I had my annual eye exam and every year my optometrist wants to increase the ADD in my glasses prescription. And just as ADD spells AD, that's exactly what ADD means in glass eye prescriptions. It means the added magnification power needed for a person to see optimally. So, my optometrist is once again claiming that my eyesight is dimming. My eyes are losing power.

Well, that may be true for my physical eyes and perhaps yours, too. But a believer's spiritual eyes are not to grow dim. On the contrary, as we grow in Christ, our spiritual eyesight should increase in clarity and in range. Amen. Faith is our spiritual eyesight and our faith is to be growing continually so that our spiritual eyesight is to be ever more keen as we age. Sadly, this is not always the case.

Let's first consider the dimming eyes of Isaac. Isaac's wife Rebecca had twin boys and God told her that the elder son would serve the younger. Esau would serve Jacob. But Isaac was a lover of his son, Esau's venison. In today's lingo, that's like saying that when son Tommy catches the touchdown, dad Donnie shouts, "That's my boy." Nothing wrong with that. But Isaac allowed his partiality toward Esau to become carnality. He sought God's blessing for Esau instead of Jacob. Isaac disregarded God's revealed purpose that the elder would serve the younger. In other words, his spiritual eyesight was dimmed with age.

Genesis 27:1 came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son, behold, now I am old. I know not the day of my death. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison, and make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die."

So, not only was Jacob's physical eyesight dim, but was his spiritual eyesight also. And this should not have been, as I've said, increasing age should bring increasing faith. Our spiritual eyesight should increase in clarity and in range with each passing day. And similar to Isaac's failure, the priest Eli in his old age also suffered from dimmed physical eyesight accompanied by dimmed spiritual eyesight. Like Isaac, Eli honored his sons above God. 1st Samuel 2:29. And so his spiritual eyesight dimmed along with his physical eyesight. 1st Samuel 3:2 and 4:15.

Isaac and Eli failed to grow in faith with their increasing age. And this is a solemn warning to each of us regardless of our age. 2 Corinthians 4:16. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. May every believer experience the daily renewal of the spiritual life within us. For this renewal is far far far more important than the condition of our aging bodies. I repeat, this daily renewal of the spiritual life is far far far more important than the condition of our aging bodies. For some of us, this statement should act as a bucket of cold water on our sleeping minds.

But also what wonderful and positive examples we have in the Bible regarding a growing faith with growing years. Consider Moses Deuteronomy 34 and 7. And Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. Now God had granted Moses both physical eyesight and strength. These were blessings from God. And these blessings were so that Moses could fulfill his purpose as Israel's leader during those 40 years in the wilderness. Moses spent a lot of time in the sun and he had to do a lot of walking and neither glasses nor knee or hip surgeries were an option in that day. But also the statement, "His eye was not dim," tells us that Moses's spiritual eyesight was keen. His faith had kept pace with his age. Praise the Lord.

And perhaps one of the most well-known Bible characters who picture faith and spiritual sight increasing together with age is Caleb. Listen to the energy of his faith as he pleads his case to Joshua regarding receiving the area of Hebron as his inheritance. And this even though Hebron was filled with the great and imposing Anakim people. Joshua 14:10. And now behold, the Lord hath kept me alive as he said these 40 and five years. Ever since the Lord spake this word to Moses while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now lo, I am this day four score and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for both war, both to go out and to come in. Now therefore, give me this mountain whereof the Lord spoke in that day. For thou heardest them in them that day, how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced. If so be the Lord with me, then I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.

Hallelujah. Caleb was an 85-year-old lion of faith. He was ready for battle. By faith, Caleb could see a great victory over the Anakim, a people much greater than he. What a hero of faith. Even after 40 years of wandering in the Sinai with unbelieving Israel, Caleb still valued his God-given inheritance in the land of Canaan. His physical strength had not diminished and his faith had only grown.

In closing, let each of us take note. Every believer is called to a full and complete life of service to the Lord. From this calling, there is no retirement. May we keep our eyes steadfastly focused upon the author and finisher of faith, the blessed Lord Jesus. And in this way our inward man can be renewed day by day in his name. Amen.