Sight Blindness

“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.