Tuesday, March 2, 2004

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may become clean.
(Matthew 23.26 NRSV)

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During the Christmas season of 1879, a newspaper reporter in Boston saw three little girls standing in front of a store window full of toys. One of them was blind. Coming closer, he heard the other two trying to describe the playthings to their friend. He said he had never thought of how difficult it would be to explain what something looks like to someone who has never been able to see. That incident became the basis for a newspaper story.

Two weeks later this same reporter attended a meeting conducted by Dwight L. Moody. His purpose was to catch the great evangelist in some inconsistency and expose him. He was greatly surprised, therefore, when Moody used the reporter's own newspaper account of the three children to illustrate a spiritual truth. "Just as the blind girl couldn't visualize the toys," said Moody, "so an unsaved person can't see Christ in all His glory." He said that God opens the eyes of anyone who acknowledges his sin and accepts the Savior in humble faith. The newsman was touched by Moody's words and saw that he too was blind and in need of Christ's healing touch. It's a good word for us to consider. Are we seeing life in all its richness or is there a blind spot in our lives? There is only one Doctor who can heal spiritual blindness. That is Christ.

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God of peace, heal my spiritual blindness. Amen.

Ron Newhouse

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