DIVINE COLLABORATION - The Story - Part 6

    

(continued from Part 5)


I looked at the clock. 1:15pm. Did I just come from the pit of hell, meet Jesus face to face, turn from hate to love, ask for and receive forgiveness, receive eyes to see - in just 15 minutes? That’s the Mystery and the Glory of a Divine Appointment. Like the woman at the well who met Jesus. Like the demoniac at the cemetery who was delivered. Like the blind woman at the DMV who was given eyes to see her pride and grace to be humbled.


In all of about 5 seconds, I tucked my heart back into my body and headed to my Destiny at Window 5. The young tester looked at wearing the Cyclops glasses, And he saw a blind woman at the DMV...


He tested my vision in a little machine. Then he had me read a few lines from a chart, using both eyes, then my good eye. The moment I dreaded came. It was time to cover the only eye I could see with.
“Cover your left eye and read Line 5 on the other chart”.

 I could not distinguish any letters. The whole chart was a blur. My heart sank. What I had feared had come upon me. Then he said, “Move closer. The angle of this chart is awkward.”

 I tried to move where he said, keeping my hand over my eye - but he gave me permission to take my hand down. Then he told me to turn and look at the chart, then cover my left eye. In those one or two seconds before I covered my eye, I saw, with both eyes, all the letters of Line 5 on the chart - it was impossible not to. My tester saw me see them!

 Then he said, “Cover your left eye and read the same line again”. I argued, “Are you sure you want me to read the same line, I mean…I just saw…” He interrupted me and said, “Yes. Read the same line.”

 The chart was still a blur. But, one by one the letters came into focus as my memory provoked them. I really did see them! Still, there were a couple I couldn’t see at all. The tester summoned me to his window.
He lowered his voice, and said, “You need to go soon and have your eyes checked, okay?”

 In the next few minutes, he spoke those words to me two more times. His voice ever so gentle - ever so concerned. “Remember to go soon and have your eyes checked”. “Don’t forget to go soon and have your eyes checked”. I wonder if that was what Peter heard when Jesus said, “Do you love me, Peter”? “Peter, do you love me”? “Do you love me”?


I am convinced that if Jesus had not humbled me when I was judging the “sinners” at the DMV, I would not have been given mercy and grace to pass the vision test. Why? Because pride comes before the fall - and Satan had arranged that Demonic Moment for just that reason. But my Lord had designed a Divine Moment to bring me to humility which always births grace. Psalm 146:8 says “…the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down.”


I thanked the tester profusely! As I walked away to my next Divine Moment, I prayed:
“Memo to God: Remember to reward the Tester, Lord. He is a merciful servant”.


(To be continued - Part 7)