Having eyes to see

I bought a clock a few years back and had hung in on a wall in our bedroom. Even though I loved it in the store, once I got it home and put it in our bedroom, I just started hating it. It didn't look good at all. I was about to give it away and I had a thought: Maybe it's just hanging in the wrong place. So I took it out to the dining room and hung it on the wall next to my bookshelf. Suddenly it looked completely different. Immediately it belonged and I loved it again.  It looked great there. I can't believe I had hated it and wanted to give it away. As I think back on why I hated it so much in our bedroom, I think it was just too small a clock for such a big wall.

As I was staring at that clock one day thinking again about how funny it was that I had hated it so much in the wrong room, a thought hit me: Maybe there are lots of things like this in my life. I don't mean physical things. But maybe there are things that God hasn't removed from my life yet, because I just haven't gotten His perspective on them. Maybe they really do bring a blessing to me that so far has eluded me because I'm not seeing it the way He does. What things in your life are you longing to rid yourself of? Are there situations or people whose value you just don't see? Ask God to hang it on the wall of faith for you. Maybe you will see them with new eyes.