Are We Also Blind?

Excuse my excitement!

But can we talk about the Bible for a second.

Wow... just WOW!

I am reading in the book of John where a man born blind has just been healed. The religious leaders investigate him over and over, continually refusing to believe the miracle, until they eventually throw him out.

Jesus then finds him, reveals Himself as the Son of Man, and the healed man believes and worships Him.

Then look at what Jesus says:

"For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." John 9:39

Then the Pharisees, those who were certain they understood God, ask Him...

"Are we also blind?" John 9:40

And Jesus replied....

"If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains." John 9:41

In other words...

"Your problem isn't that you lack sight... it's that you are convinced you don't."

The man born blind KNEW he couldn't see, physically and spiritually. He was open to receiving sight.

The Pharisees believed they had sight and that their understanding of God was clear. Yet when the very One they had spent their lives studying stood before them, they could not see Him.

Jesus is exposing the difference between humble blindness and proud certainty.

I wonder if true blindness may not be the inability to see... but the belief that one sees so clearly, that what they call light is actually darkness.

And then I remembered reading these words from Jesus....

"If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness" Matthew 6:23

The same Truth just keeps revealing another facet of itself... and another... and another.

What an adventure....