Convenient Blindness: Do You See What the Lord Sees?

There’s a saying that “there are none so blind as those who will not see.”

When was the last time you had your eyes checked? We shouldn’t take our eyesight for granted. Periodic check-ups are important because they assure us that what we’re seeing is really what’s there. Just as we need to have an ophthalmologist check our physical eyes, so we need Jesus to check our spiritual eyes. God’s Word from 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 23:1-6, Ephesians 5:8-14, and St. John 9:1-41 provide us with a check-up for our spiritual eyes to offset our vulnerability to spiritual blindness to the truth, the way, and the life which Jesus calls us to embrace in order to get to Heaven. The first verse of a Christmas Song asks, “Said the night wind to the little lamb/ Do you see what I see/ Way up in the sky little lamb/ Do you see what I see/ A star, a star/ Dancing in the night.” Jesus asks each of us, “Do you see in yourself and in the world around you what I see?” The goal of every Christian must be to see himself or herself as Jesus sees him or her. The musical, Godspell, reminds us of what’s important, “Three things I pray/ To see Thee more clearly/ Love thee more dearly/ Follow Thee more nearly/ Day by day.” Our daily wish should be that of the blind man, Bartimaeus, when Jesus asked him what he wanted and he blurted out, “Lord, that I may see” (Lk 18:41). The reality is that our sight, especially our spiritual sight, is never as sharp as it ought to be.