From Blindness to Seeing the Light

A man, blind from birth! Can you imagine it?
In my darkest fears I would dread losing my sight. Perhaps this is because I have seen beauty, have learned to read and write, know colours, have watched a sunset, and a sunrise in different venues, and have seen the magnitude and the splendour of God’s creation all around me. If I had not known these things, how would life appear? Drab? Colourless? Flat? Yes, I could learn to reaf Braille, and perhaps come to understand in a limited way something of colour, and height and depth, distance and perspective, beauty that I would read of. Nevertheless my inner vision would be incomplete, as I understand it now, but perhaps under the circumstances, as far as my mind could understand, it would be complete.
Relate this to spiritual blindness.
How do we become Christians? By acknowledging our sinful state and need of a Saviour! We believe, and accept in faith, that Jesus paid a price for us. We receive Him and ask that He take over in our lives: in effect we ask that He would become Lord of our lives. Consequently He begins a work in us, and we become less while He, in us, reveals more of Himself through the working of his Holy Spirit. The more He works in us, the more we see and understand. Like the alphabet we progress –
A – Acknowledging our need
B – Believing that Jesus Christ meets that need
C – Confessing our
D – Dependence on Him and
E – Expecting His
F – Forgiveness of our sin, by
G – Grace giving us His
H – Holy Spirit to
I – Indwell us, thus bringing us
J – Joyfully into the
K – Kingdom of God.
L – Love, seeded from the father
M – Moves our hearts and Motivates us;
N – Nurtures love in us,
O – Opening doors of Opportunity,
P – Pointing us in Preparation,
Q – Quietly giving us a Quest to
R – Repeat what we have learned, and
S – Seeing others receive Salvation and
T – Teaching them hitherto
U – Unknown truths about the
V – Victory available in Christ,
W – Wonderful release from bondage
X – through the Cross of Christ
Y – Y? Because he loves us all and wants us to join Him in His Kingdom work, and to gain the crown He promises when we live with him in heaven! He who began a good work in us will continue it and bring it to completion – to
Z – Z – end. Completion in Christ Jesus our Lord, and then – Every eye shall see Him, and every tongue rejoice --! Every tongue will confess Jesus Christ as Lord! For some it will be too late!
They thought they could see, but it was only in their own mindset, incomplete, and unwilling to be healed! For the rest? Fulfilment! Promises kept! No more blindness. SIGHT!