Myopia
Focus
Pastor Joanna Walker
Part of Dr. Joanna Walker
January 28, 2024

Notas En Español

What does Focus mean?

Noun:

  • The center of interest or activity, attraction, or attention
  • The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition
  • A point of concentration, directed attention, emphasis, a direction
  • A state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding
  • An adjustment for distinct vision
  • The area that may be seen distinctly or resolved into a clear image
    Reflection by a mirror or refraction by a lens or optical system**

Verb:

  • to cause to be concentrated
  • to adjust the focus of (the eye, a lens, etc.)
  • to bring into focus
  • to bring (something, such as light rays) to a focus, concentrate**

Perception:

  • the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.It is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

Perspective:

  • a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view:
  • a way of regarding situations, facts, etc., and judging their relative importance
  • the proper or accurate point of view or the ability to see it

Review:

  • Part One - Jesus was laser focused on His ministry/calling
  • Part Two - Perception- The Lens that we look through

    The Lens of Other’s Opinions’
    The Lens of Unforgiveness and Bitterness
    The Lens of Love
    The Lens of the Cross


Part Three-Myopia

What is Myopia (Nearsightedness)?

  • Myopia, also called nearsightedness, is difficulty seeing faraway objects. It’s a type of refractive error. When you have a refractive error, your eyes don’t properly focus images onto the retina. This causes objects to appear blurry. Myopia causes blurry distance vision, even if you can see nearby objects clearly.

What are Refractive Errors?

  • Refractive errors are the most common type of eye disorder.
    They occur when the shape of the eye does not bend light correctly. This keeps the light rays from focusing properly on your retina. The result is blurred vision, which can be severe enough to cause visual impairment.

What Causes Refractive Errors?

  • Refractive errors can be caused by:
    – Eyeball length (too long or too short)
    – Problems with the shape of the cornea (outer layer of the eye)
    – Aging of the eye’s lens
    – Refractive errors get passed on through genetics.

Write it Down

Habakkuk 2:2-3(NKJV)

2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

Stir It Up!

2 Timothy 1:5-7(NKJV)

5 when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Count the Cost

Luke 14:28-29(NKJV)

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

The Covenant

Genesis 17:1-8(NKJV)

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: 4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

In Your Seed

Genesis 28:13-15 (NKJV)

13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. 14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

Endure to the End

Matthew 24:12-14(NKJV)

12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.