Spiritual blindness is a fascinating and terrifying psychological construct. I contemplated this as my wife and I sat at the lake watching our children play on the dock. It was a perfect day to be relaxing outside on the Sabbath. I looked around and marveled at the beauty of the landscape: the water, the sky, the clouds, the green grass. I pondered the trees which all grew from a tiny pebble sized seed that miraculously contained all the material needed to form these massive structures full of beauty and purpose. Those tiny seeds also contain the necessary information to allow its future leaves to convert sunlight into sugar and recycle carbon-dioxide into oxygen. How marvelously fortunate for us that they would produce the gas we need to survive from the gas we exhale which can, in concentrated amounts, kill us. How absolutely amazing that the same information embedded in that seed can also be rearranged to make elephants, pineapple, jellyfish, and me. I see all of this harmonizing together, an orchestrated symbiosis, and can only respond by praising my Father in Heaven for allowing me to have eyes to see it; to see him through what he has made.
It breaks my heart because others can sit in that same spot and marvel that all of this could exist from random chance and circumstance. How lucky for us, they think, that nothing exploded billions of years ago and that through zillions and zillions of remarkably complex and mathematically impossible accidents that seemingly broke all the known laws of physics, we managed to arrive at this moment, which ultimately means nothing because we are all the by-products of super nova. All the while snickering proudly to themselves that there are those who still read and trust an ancient book supposedly written by an invisible deity.
The Bible says the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Cor. 4:4). It goes on to say that the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Cor. 1:18).
Let us never loose sight of the marvelous works of the Most High God! Let us always keep our eyes and ears fixed on his eternal and unchanging word, which is our only source for truth. And let us never be ashamed to stand up and be counted as being different from the teachings and doctrines of this world.
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