Impaired Vision

We've seen a few signs on our trip that have to do with "impaired vision."  Denise's favorite is, "If the water's brown, then it's not good for snorkeling."  Go figure!  Brown water certainly does cloud one's vision - not to mention the fact that it's not very appealing to swim in. And, big waves do have a tendency to stir up all of the rocks and sand on the ocean's floor, making it impossible to see much of anything.

Yesterday, we made the trip to Hana to explore Waimoku Falls.  This 15 MPH single-lane road was riddled with switchbacks, the kind where you're honking your horn at every turn - not knowing what you'll encounter on the other side.  And, if you ask Denise, I didn't honk enough!  Along the way there were hundreds of signs that I've never seen anywhere else.  My favorite was "Limited Sight Distance."  Denise even commented when we saw the first one, "There's a sermon!" 

Romans 1:20 says, "Since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made..."  But, the big waves of life's trials and the polluted water of a sinful world often make it difficult to see God clearly.  

It's in times like these, times of "limited sight distance" that we need to "fix our eyes upon Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith."  Precisely because "faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."  And, because as people of faith "we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."