yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:1
In tears, I threw my hands up in frustration as I sat at the eye doctor’s office, trying to put contact lenses onto my eyeballs for the first time. For more than thirty minutes, the woman worked with me without me having any success.
I left the doctor’s office embarrassed in both tears and defeat.
For a month, I practiced trying to put the set of trial lenses I was given onto my eyeballs, with no success. Occasionally, I’d get one contact in but need Tom to get it out. I unknowingly wore a lens for four days! It took a trip to the eye doctor to get it out! The goop forming in my eye was the clue there was a problem.
Eight-year-olds can put in contacts. Why can’t I?
I finally succumbed to the idea that it must be true—you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.
I’m sure the doctor was trying to make me feel better when he told me that contacts aren’t for everyone. As much as I wanted contact lenses to work for me, they just weren’t going to. So, instead, I got a new pair of glasses with none other than purple frame
The apostle Paul tells us not to lose heart; that though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
No matter how old we get or how much we fail, thankfully, the spiritual eyes God gives us will never fail.