Blindness

Acts 22 As Paul stood before the Jewish rioters, he expertly took them through his testimony. Later, he would write these famous words: “the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.” [2 Cor 4:4] He is saying, that was me. 

There are two kinds of blindness; one is physical and one is spiritual. We read about the blind man in John 9 who was blind from birth. Graciously Jesus healed that blindness so he could see. Paul is not speaking of that, but he is speaking about spiritual blindness to the rioting Jews. Paul tells them that this is what he experienced,  and they are just as spiritually blind as he was. To be spiritually blind is one’s inability to see spiritually the truth of the gospel.  

If we return to John 9 we see what spiritually blind is. After seeing the miracle of the formerly blind man,the religious leaders asked Jesus if they were blind too. Here is His response: If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains. [John 9:41]

Ironically, the Jewish rioters are just like the religious leaders, for former Paul,  and those we meet today. They cannot see, cannot understand, but worse they are unwilling to open their hearts, minds and eyes to the truth of the gospel.  

Where are you today?