How the Sight Does Adjust....To the Dark

Every night so far I get baby 1 yr. old ready for bed, with his blanket, a sippy full of milk, by turning the fan in his room on, giving him a kiss and a wave goodnight. He's so cute. Sometimes he's so tired he waves back goodnight. Later on that evening I go back in there to retrieve the sippy. I don't turn the lights on because that might wake him and I haven't put a night light in there, because it will just get pulled out the next day. So sometimes I have to search for the sippy with my hands because it's so dark in there that I can't see much. Within a short amount of time, I begin to see enough to find it. My eyes got use to the dark. They adjusted. If I was to stay in the bedroom for a good while, like I did when he was nursing, seeing would not be a problem.

This is often a good reminder that we can get use to the world. It may seem odd and unfamiliar at first. It may take a little time to find our way around in it, but given time we will adjust. It's kind of like the frog who wouldn't jump into a frying pan or boiling water. But if you put him in a pan with cool water and slowly warmed him up you might have yourself a cooked frog that didn't know what happened.

God's Word says to be not conformed to this world. (Romans 12:2)... That friendship with the world is enmity with God. (James 4:4)
God tells us not to love the world, neither the things that are in the world...(I John 2:15)......To keep ourselves unspotted from the world. (James 1:27)
And we even learn about Demas, who forsook Paul, having loved this present world. (2 Tim. 4:10)

Demas's sight must have adjusted to the dark.
These are sobering thoughts, but not ones to be avoided.
Oh, that God would help us in this present time to see sin clearly as an ugly thing and the world's luster for the cheap imitation that it tries to be. That He would keep our heart tender to not sin and hurt the Saviour's heart. That He would everyday purge the world from our hearts.
That He would keep our sight as so that it would not adjust.