We have to ask
ourselves how can we not know when we are spiritually wretched, miserable,
poor, blind and naked? How? If these were physical traits we would know without
a problem. In fact we often say we are feeling wretched, or miserable. We
lament our poorness, and surely if we can't physically see we'd know what that
means. So how do we not recognize our
spiritual state?
What makes us KNOW
NOT?
How can we be
spiritually blind?
Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye
should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
We say we see. We
think we see, so we just don't comprehend we are blind! We aren't spiritually
focused.
Read this--
Joh 3:1-22 There was a man of the Pharisees, named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same
came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a
teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except
God be with him.
Jesus answered and
said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto
him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into
his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.That which is born of the flesh
is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I
said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and
thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered
and said unto him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and
said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we
have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things,
and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly
things? And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in
heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved. He
that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil. For every one
that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved. But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are
wrought in God. After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land
of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
Born of the SPIRIT.
Born AGAIN.
LIGHT came into the WORLD.
MEN LOVE DARKNESS
rather than LIGHT.
MEN'S DEEDS ARE
EVIL.
MEN DON'T COME to
the LIGHT.
MEN'S DEEDS ARE
KNOWN in the LIGHT- are they of GOD?
IF YOU DO THE TRUTH
YOU COME TO THE LIGHT.
The question
is...what makes us not know we are spiritually blind?
We love our sins, we
want to hide our sins, we don't want to see our filthiness. And even those who have the worst self-esteem
can be spiritually blind because they're living for the world's esteem not
Christ's, not the Spirit.
We have to LIVE FOR
CHRIST, we have to LIVE FOR THE SPIRIT.
We don't recognize our blindness because we are living for the FLESH. We
tell ourselves we have to live in this world and be flesh so we must live for
the flesh. We might not say that, but it is the reality we are experiencing, it
is why we remain blind to our blindness.
We must LIVE for the
SPIRIT!
More on this
tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!
All in HIS LOVE
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