Blindness

Blindness is a fearsome think to consider for a man who can see. It would be a life-changing event. It is the journey from light into darkness – at best various shades of graying – that stops one in their journey. Man shutters at its finality and completeness.

Yet more people are inflicted with spiritual blindness than physical. It has a more devastating effect on not only this life, but the next. With physical blindness, man can hope for the coming heavenly kingdom where there are no more tears and no more sightlessness among other things. Only the Holy Spirit can lift that veil from their eyes.

But can believers, who once saw the light of God’s truth, be blinded again? As a believer, is it possible to be blinded by involvement with the world and its subsequent enticements? Can a believer use world principles in business, marketing, or branding to promote the church and not begin to slowly accept the allure of its cleverness and power? The world offers answers to specific questions being asked. Sometimes the Bible’s answer is much more general. This is done so that the Christian matures in their faith and begins to exercise solid judgment on daily matters. Christians that are experts in understanding the world system to promote biblical ideals will enthusiastically promote the world system use. As such, should one ask if it is right to be yoked with the worldly methods that promise solutions and attempt to accomplish heavenly purposes? Will the world not draw the believer slowly into it web of blindness and deception? God can prevent this from happening, but only if the believer grows dependent on God instead of the world system of beliefs. However, the Holy Spirit is quiet and meek and will not force, even the believer, to do things that he does not want to do. That man will be allowed to follow his own desires.

In Matthew 6:23 one reads, “If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!” The believer must decide whether he will serve God or the world methodology of business and marketing and promotions. It is either God or the other, but it cannot be both. Man is not allowed to compromise, but many still attempt to do so. The church is compromising with the world. There is darkness in this world and it is deep. Those involved with it do not see their own sin and don’t know what makes them stumble. Here on the island, it is the deceitfulness of the wealth. Man can accomplish nearly anything if enough money is thrown at it.

O Lord, help us to not be so blinded and to open the eyes of men and especially those within the church.


Geysir Joe