What Glasses?<\/p>\n
Both Mercy and Zebedee recently got glasses. They’re both farsighted, and the glasses help them see clearly, especially up close. Zebedee actually likes his glasses\u2026 but more often than not, he’s not wearing them.<\/p>\n
I’ll look at him and say, \u201cHey buddy, where are your glasses?\u201d He\u2019ll pause and then say, \u201cOh yeah,\u201d and go find them. The thing is, he needs<\/em> them. He\u2019s had headaches without them, and they make a noticeable difference. Still, for some reason, he keeps taking them off \u2013 maybe because he forgets, or maybe because he feels a little self-conscious about wearing them.<\/p>\n And that got me thinking, how often do we do that with our faith?<\/p>\n God has given us something that brings clarity, purpose, and peace. We know we need it. We even say we love it. But sometimes, when we\u2019re out in the world \u2013 at work, school, or with certain people \u2013 we tuck that thing away. We don\u2019t want to seem different. We feel awkward about being too bold or too open about following Jesus. So, we quietly take off the very thing that helps us see.<\/p>\n Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s no shame in the truth that has changed us. There\u2019s no reason to hide the grace that saved us. Just like Zebedee needs his glasses to see clearly, we need to live out our faith openly \u2013 not just when it\u2019s easy, but especially when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n So today, wear your faith like glasses. Don\u2019t be afraid to put them on \u2013 and keep them on \u2013 because it\u2019s how you see the world rightly, and how others may come to see Jesus more clearly through you.<\/p>\n by Ryan Freed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What Glasses? Both Mercy and Zebedee recently got glasses. They’re both farsighted, and the glasses help them see clearly, especially up close. Zebedee actually likes his glasses\u2026 but more often…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 02:23:23","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85238,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85229\/revisions\/85238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}