Blind Leaders of the Blind

Spiritual Blindness.

Surely our Savior was not talking about physical blindness when He said 'they be blind leaders of the blind'.  Jesus was speaking metaphorically.  Someone who does not have, and live the truth cannot give the truth to others, it's impossible. People would rather tell others what they believe and hope they make believers out of them. They aren't hoping to have others dispute what they believe. When we believe the truth we have to make sure it is TRUTH. We have to be willing to allow the Holy Spirit to open our hearts to truth, meaning we might have to add truth to truth.  Such as when you are given a building block to be built further upon. The first block is never removed it's always there but other blocks have come up after it and stand strong. 

When we are shown a truth that dispels something we've believed in all our lives how do we account for that?  Do we want to ignore the lie dispelling truth because we don't want to give up our lie?

Truly, when one can take the word of the Lord and reveal out of it a truth, how do we ignore that just because we want to cling to our lie? We are tempted to ignore the bits we don't like and focus on the bits that support our lies.

The Pharisees were holding fast to TRADITIONS rather than truth. The Pharisees like most Jews of that time were looking for a Messiah but the Messiah they were looking for was someone like themselves, someone who would come and only reaffirm their actions, their traditions. They did NOT want truth. They did not want any building on the blocks they'd already believed laid down.  And that's where a lot of people get in a whole lot of trouble. They only want their blocks there and if anything tries to mess with them they want nothing to do with it. 

The blindness of the pharisees did NOT end with them. Throughout time the spiritual blindness has remained.   Throughout time people have laid down their blocks and not allowed any other blocks to be built upon them. People have been shown that their blocks are mostly lies, but still they cling to them because they don't want change, they simply want the familiar.

We know that when Christ returns many are going to believe they are His, TRULY believe they belong to Him, that He knows them, We also know that Christ will not know them, and we'd be FOOLS not to ask ourselves why and to make sure we are not among those living a life full of a false loving Savior, void of truth.

More on all of this tomorrow by the GRACE and MERCY of our LORD.   All praise, all glory and honor unto the Father! All in the love of the Holy Spirit!

Amen!

Mat 15:1-21

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,  Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.  Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. LET THEM ALONE THEY BE BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND. AND IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND, BOTH SHALL FALL INTO THE DITCH.

Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?  Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.