"Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."
Isaiah 42:18
This is interesting... the verse makes it sound like we choose our blindness and deafness... and in a lot of ways I think that is true. Though the physical ailments may not be chosen, I think spiritually we more often choose our limitations than otherwise. We might not like a certain aspect of the gospel, so we choose to ignore it or let our thoughts wander whenever that topic comes up. Most of us seem to practice selective listening during our conversations with God. God encompasses ALL truth, and when we block parts of the truth out of our lives, we are blocking parts of God out... and parts of ourselves, since light and truth are at least partly what we are made of. :) One of my zone leaders during my mission was talking to a man about the gospel, and used a verse from the Bible to illustrate his point. The man looked it up, and then calmly tore the page out of his Bible and threw it into the fireplace. No proof of that point in *his* scriptures. ;) I'm not trying to slam that man, just the story seems to illustrate what I am trying to say. We can't edit God. He is there, he is real, and he has ALL the truth, ALL the time. :) The only thing that we can edit is ourselves... so that we are able to accept and embrace more and more truth, until the perfect day when we can handle it all. :) And part of editing ourselves is listening to things that are hard to hear, and seeing things that are hard to see... paying attention to the truth, whether we are fond of it or not. (And you know, growing fond of it as we can...) :) Let's avoid spiritual blindness and deafness as we can and learn to accept and apply the truth to our lives whenever we find it. Perhaps someday we'll even search it out. :)
Isaiah 42:18
This is interesting... the verse makes it sound like we choose our blindness and deafness... and in a lot of ways I think that is true. Though the physical ailments may not be chosen, I think spiritually we more often choose our limitations than otherwise. We might not like a certain aspect of the gospel, so we choose to ignore it or let our thoughts wander whenever that topic comes up. Most of us seem to practice selective listening during our conversations with God. God encompasses ALL truth, and when we block parts of the truth out of our lives, we are blocking parts of God out... and parts of ourselves, since light and truth are at least partly what we are made of. :) One of my zone leaders during my mission was talking to a man about the gospel, and used a verse from the Bible to illustrate his point. The man looked it up, and then calmly tore the page out of his Bible and threw it into the fireplace. No proof of that point in *his* scriptures. ;) I'm not trying to slam that man, just the story seems to illustrate what I am trying to say. We can't edit God. He is there, he is real, and he has ALL the truth, ALL the time. :) The only thing that we can edit is ourselves... so that we are able to accept and embrace more and more truth, until the perfect day when we can handle it all. :) And part of editing ourselves is listening to things that are hard to hear, and seeing things that are hard to see... paying attention to the truth, whether we are fond of it or not. (And you know, growing fond of it as we can...) :) Let's avoid spiritual blindness and deafness as we can and learn to accept and apply the truth to our lives whenever we find it. Perhaps someday we'll even search it out. :)
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