Blinded By The Light Bender

There it is, right before your eyes, can't you see it?  See what?  It's as plain as the nose on your face, can't you see that?  See what?  Sound familiar?  Something so easily seen or clearly understood and you are totally blind to it. Happens to all of us. 

Sometimes it's of little consequence like when someone points out something on the roadside as you pass by. Sometimes it is very important like the time a woman topped the hill behind me while I was running left on my motorcycle and ran over me. "I didn't see you!"  I was on N 1800cc candy apple red Goldwing with duel blinkers and she couldn't see me. 

The trouble is that we are blinded to things that would otherwise be plain to us. Tragically, many are blinded to a truth that should be plain to all: The truth of God's existence.  As Paul says, "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse" (Rom 1:20). 

 There is no reason that anyone could not see, but there is a reason why many cannot see.  John revealed this fact when he wrote, "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Cor 4:4).  As Jesus is the Light (Jn 14:6), Satan, who's native tongue is lying (Jn 8:44), is the light bender, blinding people to the truth otherwise so easily seen. 

Do you think God really wants women to kill the babies growing in their womb unless it is in rare and extreme cases of the mother's life at stake or perhaps rape one incest?  Do you really think God really sanctions men rejecting natural relations with women to marry another man?  Do you really think God approves of sexual intimacy being reduced to adult play time, where players are traded as often as some change socks?  Do you think God delights in how self-serving we have become?  

The god of this world (Satan) has done a good job of convincing people that their passion or their sense of fairness or their best thinking is the standard of right and wrong instead of the Word of God. Really?  Do you really believe that what you think or want trumps what the God of the universe has revealed?  Apparently many believe precisely that way. Obviously, many are blinded by the light bender. 

Jus ' Sayn.