April
17
He opened their minds so they could
understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45 NIV).
As we contemplate the state of things in the
world today, we are very deeply impressed and oppressed with the prevailing
malady of spiritual blindness. It is the root malady of the time. We should not
be far wrong if we said that most, if not all, of the troubles from which the
world is suffering, are traceable to that root, namely, blindness. The masses
are blind; there is no doubt about that. In a day that is supposed to be a day
of unequaled enlightenment, the masses are blind.... The leaders are blind,
blind leaders of the blind. But in a very large measure, the same is true of
the Lord’s people. Speaking quite generally, Christians are today very blind.
Every bit of new seeing is a work from heaven. It
is not something done fully once for all. It is possible for us to go on seeing
and seeing, and yet more fully seeing, but with every fresh fragment of truth,
this work, which is not in our power to do, has to be done. Spiritual Life is
not only a miracle in its inception; it is a continuous miracle in this matter
right on to the last.... We do not seek for new revelation, and we do not say
or suggest or hint that you may have anything extra to the Word of God, but we
do claim that there is a vast amount in the Word of God that we have never
seen, which we may see. Surely everybody agrees with that: and it is just that
– to see, and the more you see, really see, the more overwhelmed you feel about
the whole thing, because you know that you have come to the borders of the land
of far distances, lying far beyond a short lifetime’s power of
experience. The Lord make us all to be of those who have eyes opened.
By T. Austin-Sparks from: Spiritual Sight
- Chapter 1
This photograph is by Liz Burnell.
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