Thought for Today - October 16, 2023
Once I Was Blind!
By Robert A. Searles
Once
I was blind, but now I see. From the moment of my physical birth
until the moment of my rebirth as a child of God, my spiritual eyes and
understanding were afflicted with blindness. This is true of all people
whether or not they will acknowledge this truth.
“But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God” for they
are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.” I Corinthians 2: 14.
Jesus said: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3: 3.
Unfortunately,
there are certain religious leaders today occupying pulpits and
teaching and preaching some form of religion who are blind leaders of
the blind.
Jesus said: “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted
shall be rooted up. Let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind,
and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Matthew 15: 13,14.
These
blind leaders have never truly been born again and experienced a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ; therefore, they teach the
doctrines of men, a social gospel of good works, good deeds, the
keeping of rules and commandments . More emphasis placed on tolerance
and love, and at the same time neglecting to teach the penalty of not
being forgiven and pardoned by God and having a personal relationship
with Christ.
Praise
God! Christ is willing and able to open the blind eyes of all those
who will come to him and ask to receive their sight. In asking we must
believe that he is, in fact, the divine son of God, and is the only way,
the truth, and the light. We must believe that he is the propitiation
for our sins: he paid the price of our redemption, and we are forever
saved by his grace. We must believe that he arose from the dead and
ascended into heaven, and is now our great high priest who makes
intercession for us before the throne of God. We must believe that if
we will confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
When
we receive all this truth by faith as a free gift of God's grace, we
are miraculously born again, and then and only then can we see spiritual
things. We must have the confidence that Jesus can and will do all
this for us, and as we believe, Jesus said, it shall be done unto us.
“And
when Jesus departed thence two blind men followed him, crying, and
saying, thou son of David, have mercy on us. And while he was come into
the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them,
believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, yea, Lord.
Then touched he their eyes, saying, according to your faith be it unto
you. And their eyes were opened, and Jesus straitly charged them, see
that no man know it.” Matthew 9: 27-30.
In
this case Jesus gave physical sight to physical eyes, and at this
time he was not yet ready for it to be known abroad. Today Jesus will
give spiritual sight to spiritual eyes and he wants all those who have
received spiritual eyesight to go into all the world and preach the
gospel.
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