In his childhood years, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Europe with his family. On one trip, they went hunting for a few days but Roosevelt couldn’t hit a thing-
“One day they read aloud an advertisement in huge letters on a distant billboard, and I then realized that something was the matter, for not only was I unable to read the sign but I could not even see the letters. I spoke of this to my father, and soon afterwards got my first pair of spectacles, which literally opened an entirely new world to me. I had no idea how beautiful the world was until I got those spectacles. I had been a clumsy and awkward little boy, and while much of my clumsiness and awkwardness was doubtless due to general characteristics, a good deal of it was due to the fact that I could not see and yet was wholly ignorant that I was not seeing."
Sin blinds our hearts to sin; idolatry blinds us of our idolatry. Yet, the "spectacles" of Scripture in general and the gospel in particular open “an entirely new world” to us, enabling us not only to see our sin for the first time, but also the majesty of God’s glory and the extravagance of his mercy in Christ.
The above quote was taken from Edmund’ Morris’ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, page 34.
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