lørdag 23. oktober 2010

Jesus came to preach recovering of sight to the blind

I can hear someone say: "I'm not blind. This does not concern me!"
Ok, but before you go away, please read on and at least see "who is the blind".
When Jesus walked the earth, He healed people of physical ailments and diseases. There are several stories in the Bible where physically blind people were healed. And since Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever (see Hebr.13:8), He also heals physically blind eyes today. So if you cannot see, Jesus came to give you sight.
However, the Bible also talkes quite a lot about spiritually blindness. Let's look at some of those examples.
"Israel's watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep" (Jes.56,10). This is not talking about physical blindness, this is talking about a blindness that occurs when one does not have knowledge. Ignorance is the same as blindness. If I don't know that Jesus died for my sins, I am blind to the fact that I can be saved by believeing on Him.
Another example: "Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead" (Jes.59,10). These people groped along the wall as if they were blind. They stumbled because they could not see with their spiritual eyes.
And look at these two Scriptures from the New Testament:
"You blind guides! (Jesus was talking to the Pharisees.)You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel" (Matt.23,24) and "Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean" (Matt23,26). We see clearly that it was the pharisees' "dirty" inside that was the problem and why Jesus called them blind. It had nothing to do with their physical eyesight. They might have a 20/20 vision, but Jesus still called them "blind".
Isn't it just wonderful how the Lord wants to come into our lives and heal all aspects of it? He says in Psalm 46:8, "The LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous."
He beckons to you and says, "Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see!" (Jes.2,18).
We have all been blind at one point or another, and we probably still are to certain truths. However, the good thing is that Jesus came to preach recovering of sight to the blind. If we let Him, He'll give us perfect eyesight, both physically and spiritually. Why not receive it from Him today?

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