After being legally blind for nearly twenty years, I am still amazed by the number of people who don’t understand the difference between physical blindness and legal blindness.
It is possible to have 20/20 vision and see everything in front of you perfectly and still be legally blind. I have a severely limited field of vision. Objects directly to the left or right, above or below my shoulders are simply invisible to me.
It is a disability no one should ever want. 2000 years ago Jesus confronted a group of Pharisees about their blindness (John 9:41). They thought their legalistic perspective made them see better than others. They thought they could save themselves.
Being blind can be good or bad. As Jesus told the Pharisees, if there are blind they wouldn’t be guilty of their sin. The apostle Paul, a former Pharisee learned this after becoming physically blind.
He later explained how we live by blind faith and are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:5–8, Romans 3:24, 9:16). It doesn’t matter how many times we sing Amazing Grace, we are still blind to some degree. It’s a hard truth that many of us struggle to deal with and is what this special July blog will be about.
Blind?
Our fate isn’t written in the stars.The forefathers of our faith were commanded for believing without seeing what God was up to (Hebrews 11). The closer we get to God the more He shows us and the further we are from Him the less we see. The dictionary defines blind as: relating to a sightless person, unable to discern or judge, having no rational discrimination or guidance. Seeing isn’t always believing and believing without seeing is priceless.
Most of us define sin as anything that separates us from God, but we fail to see our sin because it blinds us. Send doesn’t always come from bad things.
• Sometimes we get so caught up in what we want that we are blinded by love. King Solomon taught that love can make us delerious (Proverbs 19-20).
• Like love, lust blinds us.
• hate can easily blind us.
• Envy blinds us.
• Our desires can blind us.
We can become so focused on what we want that it turns good things into idols and idols aren’t good.
Good 2.0
I’ve stated before how twisted man’s definition of good is. Often what you want isn’t what’s best for you. This is why Jesus taught His disciples to pray for God’s will be done as it is in heaven. This is how we live it well.
The giants of our faith didn’t get everything they wanted. Because of that I’m not afraid. God is all-knowing. Without sin, not one gets past Him, because He is not blind.
It is possible to have 20/20 vision and see everything in front of you perfectly and still be legally blind. I have a severely limited field of vision. Objects directly to the left or right, above or below my shoulders are simply invisible to me.
It is a disability no one should ever want. 2000 years ago Jesus confronted a group of Pharisees about their blindness (John 9:41). They thought their legalistic perspective made them see better than others. They thought they could save themselves.
Being blind can be good or bad. As Jesus told the Pharisees, if there are blind they wouldn’t be guilty of their sin. The apostle Paul, a former Pharisee learned this after becoming physically blind.
He later explained how we live by blind faith and are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:5–8, Romans 3:24, 9:16). It doesn’t matter how many times we sing Amazing Grace, we are still blind to some degree. It’s a hard truth that many of us struggle to deal with and is what this special July blog will be about.
Blind?
Our fate isn’t written in the stars.The forefathers of our faith were commanded for believing without seeing what God was up to (Hebrews 11). The closer we get to God the more He shows us and the further we are from Him the less we see. The dictionary defines blind as: relating to a sightless person, unable to discern or judge, having no rational discrimination or guidance. Seeing isn’t always believing and believing without seeing is priceless.
Most of us define sin as anything that separates us from God, but we fail to see our sin because it blinds us. Send doesn’t always come from bad things.
• Sometimes we get so caught up in what we want that we are blinded by love. King Solomon taught that love can make us delerious (Proverbs 19-20).
• Like love, lust blinds us.
• hate can easily blind us.
• Envy blinds us.
• Our desires can blind us.
We can become so focused on what we want that it turns good things into idols and idols aren’t good.
Good 2.0
I’ve stated before how twisted man’s definition of good is. Often what you want isn’t what’s best for you. This is why Jesus taught His disciples to pray for God’s will be done as it is in heaven. This is how we live it well.
The giants of our faith didn’t get everything they wanted. Because of that I’m not afraid. God is all-knowing. Without sin, not one gets past Him, because He is not blind.