Mankind tends to be content in living in complacency. We are happy to live in our ignorance rather than confront the truth of reality. How often do we find ourselves singing along to a song, when someone points out the words we are saying aren’t correct or worse even, just a gibberish combination or vowels and consonants? Then we proceed to deny it even to ourselves, until there is a desire for truth sparked in us to know the true lyrics. When God calls to us, He is often pointing out to us the flaw of our previous notions about the world and about ourselves, and asking that we seek truth.
The Word of God is full of examples of people afflicted with blindness, sometimes physical blindness, but more often, spiritual blindness. Through Christ the eyes of all blind can be opened. Take for example the man blind from birth in John 9:25 ESV (about Jesus) “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
Being baptized by the Holy Spirit completely changes the lens through which a human sees the world. An unbeliever goes through life believing there is nothing more than the shoes he will put on his feet or the food he will put in his belly. He believes he is an accident and that his purpose ends at the stop of a pulse, which everyone will experience eventually. I did not realize this until I was 27 years old. I knew of death but not the severity of what it meant. It is an earth-shattering realization for someone with no solid foundation. This being said, out of the most devastating experience of my life, came the most precious gift I have ever received. Jesus is the light in the darkness. “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness…” Matthew 6:22-23 ESV. When a person becomes focused on Jesus, he will know the light and leave the darkness behind.
The unbeliever will remain skeptical; however, many minds have been changed by the call of the Lord. If you would like a relationship with Him, all you have to do is ask. ”Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8 ESV.
I would like to end in prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, please allow your Word to touch any person who sees or hears it. I pray that you would open their eyes, ears, and heart to You, and I pray that the Holy Spirit would come over them. Please let this verse from your promises open the eyes of the reader and all those in need of Jesus Christ: “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 ESV. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
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