LifeLink Devotions for Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Isaiah 65:18 “But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create”

Some days are a drag. They are so mundane. May I suggest that the reason for Mundane days is monocular: you know, looking only through one eye rather than two.

When I was first learning to shoot a rifle as a young boy, I was taught something very important by the man who was training me. When I put that .22 caliber rifle up to my shoulder for the first time and looked down the barrel at those sights, I shut my left eye so I could focus completely on the target. Before I could pull the trigger, he stopped me. He told me to open my left eye and learn to focus on the target with both eyes open.

I had a lot of trouble with that at first. By nature, because our eyes are separated by space, we see in stereo, making it possible for us to have depth perception. In addition, one of our eyes is more dominant than the other, and when trying to line up two objects in a straight line we need to use the dominant eye. Trying to line up a rifle on a target is very difficult when both eyes are open.

But I did what he said and kept practicing. Now, when I hunt, both eyes are always open. In that way, I never become so focused on one target that I miss another potential target that may be just left or right of the first one. On several occasions I have been looking through the scope of my rifle at a deer when out of the other eye I see the movement of a bigger deer to one side. Monocular vision limits potential.

This morning, as I sat in my recliner checking out all the latest news, weather, and sports, I noticed movement through the window on the other side of the house. I looked up and a squirrel was attempting to jump onto the top of my birdfeeder. It was fun to watch him try various branches from which he could suspend precariously before giving up and trying another one. But this moment was not about squirrels, it was about the Lord revealing Himself to me and reminding me not to get so monocular about life that I forget to see His presence around me.

Mundane days are the result of monocular vision. We are so focused on the fun we had over the weekend, or the stresses of life in the week ahead, or the disappointments of life, or any other issue that exists, that we miss the blessings of the Lord’s presence. We have closed the eye that can see the movement of the Lord and we are seeing only the targets visible through the scope of self.  We are so intent on
what we can create for ourselves that we are missing the splendor of what God is creating in and around us.

This is not a Mundane day – this is a Magnificent day. It is a Marvelous day. I rejoice that I enter into this day with both eyes wide open to see the splendor of God’s presence in everything that goes on around me.

Pastor John