Blinded

12 July 2011

John 12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and turn for me to heal them."

In each of us there are elements where we cannot see clearly, for some it is the physical for others it may be emotional and in others it may be spiritual, and in others maybe all of these. We sometimes allow things to stop us from seeing clearly, this may be the prejudice that we have, or it may be the anger that we carry. Often we are influenced by what we see through the interpretation of others, and so how we respond is coloured by their opinion.

One of the most common things that influences in what we see are our emotions, we allow them to bring into us interpretations which are then clouded by our own feelings and our own definitions which then causes us to respond accordingly. Manipulative people understand this and we find ourselves being used and abused by them because they know that we respond in certain ways. So if one is emotional about something we see within it things that others do not and we tend  to force our views on them. Yet we should constantly be aware there are the ways that God intends us to see and the blindness that we have to His views in order to have our own way. Our daily prayer should be to see the path of our life as God sees it rather than through the blindness of the world.

Be encouraged to see with God’s eyes rather than with your own.

David

Point to ponder: See with the eyes of Jesus.

Question to consider: Are you blinded by your emotions?

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