New Sight

I was talking with a good friend of mine yesterday who said she had experienced a revelation in her life! Kari told of how she didn't realize how blind she was until she put on a friends glasses and she could suddenly see! This reminded me a lot of how I had been living my life in the past week. Its easy, friends, to let the world invade your life and pull you down. It's certainly been easy for the world to pull me down this past week. We are constantly on the run - the run from this meeting to that one, or this appointment to the next, or from school to this commitment. It's easy to begin feeling overwhelmed and run down. It's easy, brothers and sisters, to push away from life all together in hopes that it might go away. When Kari was telling me about how her sight had been renewed by putting on a pair of glasses, it reminded me of how with a change of my attitude, and help from God, I too could see the world anew.
Theres a woman who works in the SDSU Student Union - her name is Marilyn - and for the past year I have watched her as she scurries around the tables refilling the napkin dispensers, pushing in chairs, picking up trash, and not saying a word to anyone. Im ashamed to say that many days I said to myself "Would it hurt for her to say hello to anyone as she's doing her work?" Like Kari, I was blind and the only thing I needed was to regain my sight - and while Kari regained hers with a new pair of glasses, I regained mine with Christ. It's been a few months now that I've been praying for Marilyn - that someone, in some way, would open their heart to her. Today, that person was me. As I was eating with friends in the Union I walked up to Marilyn and said "Hello!" with a loud booming voice. I think I may have scared her at first but then came something I have not seen from this woman - a smile. A big smile from ear to ear. 5 minutes later, after listening to her talk non-stop, I walked away with a new smile on my face. My sight had been renewed, and for 5 minutes all of those cares in the world that had been pulling me down had vanished and were unimportant because I had made a new sister in Christ, and that my friends is what life is all about.
How is your sight today? Are you feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders? Are you feeling overwhelmed about your life and its direction? These past weeks I have been forgetting one of the rules that I need to live my life around - that every morning when you wake up, you have control over the day you are going to have, because you have control over your attitude. When you wake up tomorrow morning, blinded by the worries of the world, I'd like for you to remember what Paul says in Philippians 2:5 - "Have the same mindset as Christ." Can we make it a goal that tomorrow morning, from the minute our feet touch the floor, that we would take WWJD to a new level? That we would let him invade our lives to push out all the worries of the world? I pray, that most of all, you would find new sight - new attitude - in Christ.