“Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind,
ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” –
John 9:41
Before Jesus there was a “great gulf” fixed between God and
mankind. The sin in man separated us
from a holy God and we could not have that personal relationship with Him that
once was. Jesus Christ came to reconcile
that and bring us back into full fellowship.
His teaching and preaching was to everyone and anyone; it was about
oneness with God. He mission was to
bring you and I the lost sinner back to oneness with God. The Son of God died so that you could have a
personal relationship with God; so that I could have a personal relationship
with God. His blood was the bridge that
allowed us access across the gulf of sin into the holiness of God. It is access given to the individual who
meets the condition, that condition is predicated on the realization that we
are blind. We are blind to this holiness
and need a Savior.
It is very difficult
to be proud and be a Christian. We come
into this world with a predisposition to disobey God, but this disposition is
masked by our childish innocence.
However, it is not long until we shed that innocence and the disposition
to sin begins to manifest itself. The
decision we make, make us; by and by we find within ourselves an inability to
cease from sin. This is a horrid state
but it is not one that we have to remain in.
Jesus Christ can save you from this if you let him. He can save you if you admit you’re blind, if
you admit you are going the wrong way.
You cannot be saved from sin if you don’t recognize that you are in
sin. Everyone that is saved, at some
point, they had to admit that they were lost.
They had to tell God: “I am lost, I am blind, and I cannot live right on
my own.” There has to be a point when
you own up to your inability and embrace His ability. The state of your blindness realized and the
desire for healing your chief goal. You
will find only pain in the pride of life.
It is not good to be totally blind to the ways of God, but it is worse
still to be totally blind and yet you 100% affirm that you are not. In my grade school days I had to suffer
through this thing called “algebra”; and suffer I did. The concept of it all was totally lost to me,
but worse still I was SO sure that I was doing it right and needed no
assistance. Though it was so clear to
everyone around me that I needed some serious help, it was blind to me.
We cannot afford to wander through this life with sight
blindness. It may be painfully obvious
to those around you that you need Jesus, it may not be. You may have it all together; good job, good
spouse, great kids, great house…..but you’re totally dead inside. A gulf fixed between you and God, between you
and true peace. The sin and unrest will
remain as long as the sight blindness does.
However, when you confess your inability, and cry out to God, then he
can work. He can help, he can heal, and
he can save.
