Day 56

 

Having Eyes But Are Blind

 

Lead out those who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf.

 

Isaiah 43:8

 

 

Ethan was really terrible at playing hide and seek. He did okay in the hiding part; he could find imaginative places to hide. What he couldn't do was seek. Well, he could seek, he just couldn't find.

Once we were playing in the house and it was his turn to find me. I went and hid in his room. My hiding place was that I was lying in his bed, no covers up, just lying there in plain sight. He came into the room and looked in the closet but didn't see me.  A short time later Jo snuck into the room, immediately saw me and climbed in the bed with me. Ethan came into the room looking for us both and though we were in plain sight he could not find us. There was nothing wrong with his vision, he just didn't see us.

The Bible talks about people "who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf." On numerous occasions Jesus says, "He who has ears, let him hear." The problem is not being physically blind or deaf, it is being spiritually blind.

I've talked to so many people who are on a pathway that leads to destruction and you would think it would be quiet evident to them, but they don't see it. They do things that they should not and are mystified when the consequences are bad. It should be clear that their way of living has led to misery  and that they need a Savior in the most desperate way.

It is like it is their turn to seek, to seek out salvation, a better way of living, and they can't find Him. They look in the bottom of beer bottles  or in empty prescription containers and don't find Him. They try sitting in a certain position, chanting some nonsense, breathing in incense thinking it will clear their vision and don't find Him. Some don't even try to find Him, they think as long as they play by the rules that they are winners but they never stop to ask what the rules really are. 

All the while Jesus is in plain sight, on a hill called Mount Calvary, lifted up on a cross.

 

Upon Further Review:

 

Read John 3:5-16

 

• What did Nocodemus not understand?
• What event in Jesus' live corresponds with Moses' lifting up of the snake in the desert?
• What must we do to have eternal life?