Blind is blind
I’ve been going through Paul Tripp’s 40-day Lenten devotional entitled “Journey to the Cross.”
Each day his words and insights have shone truth into my heart. It’s like a door that is being slowly opened revealing a little more light and a little more light.
On day 11, he boldly states: “Sin blinds.” This statement stopped me cold. I mean as in flat out. I’ll explain more about this in a minute but let me back up first.
He says: “The conscience is the inner alarm system that God designed to warn us and redirect us. Sin has damaged the function of this vital tool of the heart. To understand that damage, you must understand that your alarm which is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. …Sin not only blinds the conscience so it cannot function as God intended; sin also causes the conscience to be blind to its blindness. So, we think we are seeing clearly and that the alarm system (conscience) is working well, but in our sin, we are trusting what is blind…”
Yep, sin blinds. Sin causes the conscience to be blind to its blindness.
I often hear people my age say, “there are no coincidences with God.” They make this statement with confidence because they’ve experienced the truth of this statement. Being aware of and watching God weave the situations and circumstances of our lives together is a beautiful thing! Often, we talk about how God gets a theme going and the things we hear, read, and experience are around that theme. Each a teaching moment with our great Teacher!
My theme this week was blindness. So yeah, when I got to day 11 of my devotional, my spiritual ears peaked, and my heart knew God wanted to capture it in a new and fresh way. You see, the day before I had been told I have macular degeneration. I was told I had age-related macular degeneration, but I’m I refuse to relate to the age-related part (I’m blind to it ) For those of you who might be familiar with this, I have the wet kind in one eye and the dry kind in the other. In the wet eye, I’ve lost about a quarter of my vision. So, I’m a quarter blind. It’s a progressive kind of thing so if it progresses as usual, I’ll eventually be legally blind. It’s something my daddy had so I watched him lose his ability to read, watch TV, etc. Oh, that I will have his grit.
But this post is not about me. I’m fine. This post is about God and His goodness. So, if you have any comments, make them about Him!
Share about how His personal touch in our lives and how He uses everything, and I mean everything to commune with us. So, imagine how He captured my heart when on day 11 of my devotional I read…blind.
Other words began to jump off the page like look and see.
Being blind to our sin is far, far worse, and more dangerous than being visually blind. Blind is blind y’all and without divine intervention, we cannot cure blindness. And I am speaking about physical blindness as well as spiritual blindness.
We need to be on the alert for spiritual blindness that applies to all of us. It’s a condition that causes us to stumble and fall and puts us in a multitude of dangers. As it pertains to my eyesight, I am not blind to my blindness. It’s kind of hard to ignore there is a blind area. But as Paul Tripp says, with spiritual blindness, we are blind to our blindness.
Oh, sweet friends, our gracious and loving God has so much for us to see in our hearts. I am so grateful for how He is slowly opening the door of my heart and shining light on the sins and idols that I have been too blind to see. I am so grateful; I encourage you to take the time to do the same for we all…every single one of us… are blind to our blindness. More than visual sight, we need His holy light to shine bright in our hearts giving us the ability to see what only He can show us. Our response: confess it, repent of it, and ask for His cleansing, healing, and restoration of our spiritual sight.
So, that's what the Lord has been showing me. What's He been showing you?
