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John 9:35-41 “Are You Blind?”

Many people wear glasses and some people are even blind in this world.  Take a moment and find a cloth of some kind to use as a blindfold.  Take about five minutes or so and try to do the tasks that you would usually do in everyday life.  Say, try to type a letter to your parents on the computer or try to operate a microwave to heat up a cup of water.  You could even try reading your favorite book.  You probably shouldn’t drive either, but let’s say you try to back the car a few feet in the driveway (while watching out for the elderly and little kids of course).  Nothing seems so easy anymore does it?

Let’s try another example.  What if a blind person were to walk around claiming he could see while the blind person and you both know that the blind person still cannot see?  What is the point in claiming to be something one is not?  We would probably think of that person as a fool and commit him to an insane asylum.

Now look at your spiritual life.  Are you claiming something that you don’t really understand?  Do you claim to know God personally but really have no clue what it means?  Do you claim to be a Christian and then shrink away when opposition abounds everywhere in the form of peer pressure?  Spiritual blindness affects us all.  All of us are or were once spiritually blind in some way.

“Jesus said, ‘For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.’” (verse 39)  When you look upon this verse what first impression does it leave?  Unfairness, confusion, stupidity?  No, our God is greater than that.  Jesus came to take away those blindfolds of those who realize they are blind and to blind those who believe they can see (when really they are as blind as the rest of us).

Part of the blindfold that Jesus came to take away was our blindness to our sinful nature (you can read more in Romans 6).  The Pharisees in these verses thought they were sinless because they followed the laws to the letter.  However, Jesus makes it clear that all humans are sinful and are need in God’s forgiveness and salvation.

So take a few moments to examine your life today.  Where are you still spiritually blind (any self-pride, your own will over God’s will, etc.)?  What do you need to do for God to take away these blindfolds in your life?  Is there anyone you should pray for that also needs his/her blindfolds taken away?

“…one thing I do know.  I was blind but now I see!”  ~ John 9:25b

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