When a car is hit unexpectedly in its blind spot, we call it being blind-sided. The same is true if someone were to be punched or hit without ever seeing the punch coming. We would say that they had been blind-sided.
Some of us go through life with injuries or challenges that have not only blind sided us, but have left us "blind-sighted." In other words, we see, but we don't see. Our eyes may be fully functioning, yet, we are unable to truly "see" what we need to see.
I read an article today about an 82-year-old woman who was arrested for burglary. Her rap sheet was 21 pages long and dated back to 1955. Her latest arrest came from stealing from doctors' offices. Allegedly, she would hide out in the offices after closing hours to steal from them. Talk about being blind-sighted.
At the age of 82, this woman is blessed to be able to see well enough to make it to the doctors office on her own, but only to sneak around, hide out and steal. After all these years she still can't "see" that her life of crime has gotten her nowhere. Satan seems to have found a really good blind side to hang out in with this woman. And, from the length of her rap sheet, it appears he has been crippling her spiritual and emotional eyesight for decades with no signs of stopping.
Perhaps it's not even her blind side where the enemy is hanging out. Perhaps like some of us, she is the one who hung out the blinds which cover the windows of her soul.
Blinds are placed in front of windows to prevent the sunlight from streaming into a room. Some of us have mounted up mini blinds, venetian blinds, vertical blinds and whatever else we can find to block out the Son's light because we prefer the darkness. We don't want to be fully exposed to the light of God's Word because we still enjoy some of the sinful things we should have outgrown long ago.
Like that 82-year-old woman, some of us still get a cheap thrill from doing what we know is wrong. Some of us have lived with the blinds on our eyes for so long, we don't even know how to see life any differently.
Certainly, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But to deliberately continue blocking out the Son is a different story. We may not think it's a big deal to go around blocking out the Son's light with our spiritual blinds, but God says otherwise:
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. (John 12:46)
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light. (Ephesians 5:8)
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not [tell] the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:6-7)
Some things will begin to change for the better in our lives the moment we dismantle the blinds we so carefully and stubbornly put in place. Some of our relationships will improve dramatically the moment we take the blinders off about our negative attitudes and other behaviors that drive people away from us.
God invites us to walk in the light, not to expose us to embarassment, but because when we know the truth, the truth shall make us free.
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. (Ecclesiastes 2:13)
Let's leave the blinds for the windows in our physical homes. When it comes to our spiritual and emotional homes, I say, let the Son shine in!
BNcouraged!
Rev. Karen
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