Spiritual Blindness”
Author: Pastor Pat AH Aman
Spiritual Blindness, oh my gracious, these are Powerful Words.
But, as I look around, I see people walking around in a fog of spiritual blindness, and when they speak their words it shows me just how spiritual blinded they have become in their lives.
As I pondered this question of spiritual blindness, it made me think, am I where I should be in my walk with God? Am I blind to the world around me and the service God has called me into?
I decided without hesitation that I do not know about you, but, I am on assignment for Father God and I am realizing I do not have time for junk are to play games. I do not beat around the bush. If someone needs Jesus, I will share the grace and mercy of His gift of Salvation with them.
I can share with them that they do not have to stay in a state of spiritual blindness.
I can share through my testimony what it is like to walk with dark shades over my eyes. Yes, if my own experience with my own spiritual blindness can help a soul not spend eternity in hell, so be it.
“Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing. And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.” Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.”
John 9:1-7, 37-38
This is a story of blindness. A man had been born blind, forced to spend his entire life begging his livelihood. Then one day Jesus pick up some dirt, spit in it and put the dirt (clay)on his eyes, sent him to wash, and he saw!
I wonder why nobody at all, praised God?
Was it because they were too preoccupied with their own concerns to recognize Father God at work among them?
The disciples were wrapped up in a theological question: Why was this man born blind?
The Pharisees were worried by a legal question: What authority had Jesus to heal, especially on the Sabbath?
The man’s parents were anxious about a personal issue: How can we avoid being ostracized by the synagogue? Even the man himself was initially concerned only with what had happen to him.
This is a story of blindness, all right. Everybody in it is blind, to Jesus. Yet there He is, restoring sight!
I am blind sometimes too, so preoccupied with other issues that I fail to see the work of God around me.
One person in this story give me hope. The man who was once blind finally sees who Jesus really is an immediately he worships Him.
If I focus my own eyes on who Jesus is, will I be able to see what God is doing in the world and in my life, and praise Him for it.
Father God, as I turn my eyes to You, heal my blindness that I may praise You for all You good works. In Jesus Name I Pray Amen and Amen and so be it!!!!
Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2023 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life”
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