Wed Inspiration

Morning Inspiration with Pastor Merritt

You could have perfect 20/20 vision, but be spiritually blind as a bat, because you not only have eyes in your head, you also have eyes in your heart. People who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ don’t have a physical problem. They have a spiritual problem. They are not physically blind. They are spiritually blind.

Augustine was once approached by a pagan who showed him his idol and said, “Here is my god. Where is yours?” Augustine replied, “I cannot show you my God – not because there is no God to show you, but because you have no eyes to see Him.” As we read this story about the blind man, keep in mind we are not just dealing with physical blindness, but we are dealing with spiritual blindness.

This man had a deeper problem, because people believed that if you had some kind of a physical disability it must be because either you did something wrong or your parents did something wrong, so there was not just something physically wrong with you, but there was something spiritually and morally wrong with you. That is why we read,

“And his disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.” (John 9:2-3)