Blind Spots

“We are not blind too, are we?”

In my quiet time with the Lord this morning, I asked the Spirit to lead me in my requests and petitions of the Lord. And one of those prayers He spoke through my lips was for His Body to have the unity the Father truly desires, rather than the unity we imagine or assume He desires. Then He began to minister to me about blindness and its relation to our heart. How the state of our heart affects how we see. 

We may pray for the Lord to remove our blindness, but for Him to answer that prayer, He must deal with our heart, because He teaches that the pure in heart will see (Matt 5:8). He also ministered to me this morning that if He were to take us into the great halls of truth, many would not be able to bear it. It would be incomprehensible and even unacceptable to them, because of the state of their heart, or inner man. We only see what we are able to see, rather than the fullness of what truly is. We see only what we accept as true, and we turn away from what we don’t understand or what we are not willing to accept, and in that place, there is blindness. 

As I wept and prayed for us, the Holy Spirit communicated this word, “Sinners can be dealt with in their denial far more easily than the arrogant can be dealt with in their blindness.” He brought my mind to the words cried out at John 9:40, “We are not blind too, are we?” So I guess the question we must ask ourselves is, how much are we willing to see? And we mustn’t ask that question in relation to any blindness we may perceive in others, we must ask that question solely of ourselves. 

We must not ask in indignant incredulity, “We are not blind too are we?” But we must simply assume that we are, and ask instead, “Father in heaven, what are my blind spots?”

(John 16:12,13) I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

(Luke 4:17-19) ..the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

(John 9:39-41) Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.” Those who were with Him from the Pharisees heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin. But since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains."