One trouble man has is vision clouded with untruth, false values, incorrect anticipations. To see clearly is a great blessing.
There are times that overwhelm one and are accompanied by increased clarity of vision, surety of judgment, correctness of anticipation. Such times are serious illness (of the self), grave unexpected danger, crushing defeat, the loss of one’s spouse, when one is subject to scathing criticism or denunciation.
Correspondingly there are times when one’s vision is most cloudy: when one is full of food, drowsy and completely comfortable, when all has been going exceptionally well, when one has just been very successful, completed a great coup, when all around one sing his praises.
Times of clarity can be created deliberately by the following means: working at the most important thing one knows to do until one is in pain and great fatigue, ready to drop; completing a mission or calling for the Lord where one has had to sacrifice until it truly hurts; giving away all of one’s possessions.
Times of clarity are so precious that they should be sought assiduously and treasured greatly.