Blinded Eyes

August 20, 2009





Did you know that the eye is like the lamp of the body (Mat. 6:22)? It lets the light in. Without a properly functioning eye, there can be no light and, therefore, no physical sight. In the same way, there can be no spiritual sight (or vision, insight, discernment) without the Lord removing the veil from our spiritually blinded eyes. Mat. 6:22-23 reads in full like this, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then, the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" That darkness is extremely great and life-threatening! Darkness is definitely not a good thing!



Prior to salvation, we are spiritually blind. In fact, it is impossible to understand the things of God until that veil causing this kind of blindness has been removed. The god of this age (satan) has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they CANNOT see the light of the gospel (2Cor. 4:4). God is the one who lets light shine out of the darkness and makes his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Christ (2Cor. 4:6).



Those who don't submit themselves to Jesus remain under satan's influence. Satan himself blinds their eyes to the gospel so that they may not be saved. That's his biggest job. Keep people in darkness. That's a bad situation, isn't it? Thank God there is a solution to the problem though. Believers can bind satan's activity through intercessory prayer and by preaching the gospel in the power of the Spirit (Acts 1:8). It is critically important to do this so that people may hear, understand and choose to believe and then be saved. When our unsaved loved ones are critically ill, we don't hesitate to pray for their healing. We should be equally concerned about their eternal future and intercede for them in the power of the Holy Spirit regarding their salvation.



2 Cor. 3:16 also refers to the veil covering the spiritual eyes or hearts. "But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away." That's good news, isn't it? Submit to the Lord, give your life over to Him so that you may live in Him forever, repent of your sins, invite Jesus to come into your heart and life and to just take over! Oh yes, and then be obedient to His commands. All of them! Obedience is mandatory. Study the things of God. Read His precious Word. Listen to Word oriented, Bible believing ministers of the gospel, pray and ask God to reveal Himself to you in ways that you will understand. He will absolutely do it!



Listen to this. In Psalm 119:18 David asks God, "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law." David wasn't physically blind. He just recognized that he needed help right then from God in understanding God's laws. He knew and understood that the things of God were wonderful and he wanted God to show him the many wonderful things in His Word; His law. Even David saw that his eyes were spiritually blind from time to time!



Non believers will never understand the things of God; the scriptures; his Word; Him. Unless and until they are "saved" that is! But even we believers need help from time to time and can ask God to just open up our spiritual eyes so that we might understand what He is saying to us. We need to do that from time to time and especially when we are having some trouble discerning what it is exactly that He is trying to tell us because we just don't want to miss what God has to say to us! It's too important.