SEEING CLEARLY

A masterpiece's value is in the central picture, not in its surrounding edges; who sees a wonderful painting and discusses just the background?

For the LAMB Who is in the midst of the throne" (Rev. 7:17) Most people see only the horrific judgments framing Revelations, but reviewing the book, I heard Rev. 7:17 described as "seeing the rest of the book clearly with your glasses on".  

Joyce and I went to an optician yesterday, and I got fitted for a new pair of glasses. The very first thing I noticed was that I could see clearest the very center. Since it's a gradual bifocal, it was made to be able to see up close then gradually change to a lens enabling seeing distances. I couldn't have  judged the worth of the lens by how things looked around the edge alone.

(Yes, there is a small shop nearby where I got a pair of reading glasses for doing deskwork, but I need this new pair for sighting birds at distances and seeing carp and turtles in the creek. Otherwise, the only way I can do that is by using the glasses with the missing nose guard!)