Improving our Spiritual Vision

2 Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight. 

When we look at God in the beginning we don't see him clearly.  It's like looking at him through cracked glasses that are the wrong prescription and dirty to top it all off.  Only God can change our vision.  This clouded view of him is the human perspective which is full of presumptions and is skewed precisely because we are human and can't see the absolute clarity of light that is God.  So we must keep trying to see without fully seeing.  This is called faith.  Keep believing in God and what his word says, keep trying to seek him, and he will reveal himself to you.  

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Through the squinting we struggle to see who he really is.  But not giving up is like medicine for our eyes because the more we look for God, the more he reveals himself and our eyes can suddenly see more clearly every time. 

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

 One day you'll realize you're seeing God for who he is, with much better clarity and perspective.  This does not always happen overnight, although it can.  In the story of Paul, the Lord showed what the power of revealing himself can do to change our lives.  Paul (at first named Saul), was a tyrant, mercilessly persecuting Christians and throwing them into jail. The Lord had radical other plans for him to not only stop persecuting Christians but to become die-hard witness for Christ to both the Gentiles and the Jews.  To make this happen the Lord stepped in, audibly spoke to him and blinded him for three days.  Then when Ananias laid hands on him:

Acts 9:18
Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.

This a rather dramatic story, but it's symbolic of what the Lord does for each of us when he reveals himself to us.  When you truly see God for who he is, it changes our lives forever.  It's rather mysterious, but at first God hides himself and his glory from us to a large degree.  I call this "hiding in plain sight".  It's only when we seek him do we really find him.  I don't fully understand his ways still, and probably never will until I die.  But I am starting to see him with a new clarity, and my hope is to someday receive spiritual 20/20 vision as I spend eternity with him.