Did you know that stress can affect your vision? Stress can significantly impact your vision causing issues like blurred vision, dry eyes, eye strain, and over sensitivity to light. It can also cause eye twitching,tunnel vision, and visual distortions such as eye floaters and in severe cases cause a “blacked-out” spot in your central vision. There are ways to help your eyes to reset them so to speak from stress.
You see, stress can also affect our spiritual vision. We can lose sight of our purpose, the importance and living for God and even the goodness of God. We must reset our vision.
We see an example of this process in Psalm 13.
Psalm 13:1-6 NET 1 How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me? 2 How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me? 3 Look at me! Answer me, O LORD my God! Revive me, or else I will die! 4 Then my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!” Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended. 5 But I trust in your faithfulness. May I rejoice because of your deliverance! 6 I will sing praises to the LORD when he vindicates me.
He starts the Psalm out questioning God’s timing. You can almost feel the emotion and stress when he asks God to answer him. He expresses that he will die if He doesn’t. He takes his eyes off of God and begins to look at the problems around him. Then comes the reset. He starts with the word “but.” When you use the word but you minimize or invalidate the preceding statement. So he is doing this to everything he said previously. He then says that he will trust in God’s faithfulness, he will rejoice in God’s deliverance, he will praise God.
He reset his vision by turning his eyes to God, by taking his focus off of all the things around him and placing his focus on God. Whenever you seem to be getting overwhelmed, stop looking at everything around you and fix your eyes on Jesus.
Psalm 119:37 NET Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!
Isaiah 26:3-4 KJV 3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: