I knew someone who wanted glasses so bad that they would fake being partially blind. In the Old Testament, we see that the prophet Isaiah speaks of God’s coming judgment. God is tired of his people’s disobedience and sends Isaiah with the harsh message: “You have a choice: Go on deliberately not seeing and hearing or turn from your wicked ways and be healed.”
Israel’s deliberate blindness blocked their healing and led to their exile to a distant land. However, there was a glimmer of hope: the bible says “The holy seed will be the stump in the land.” In other words, If you cut down a tree and leave the stump, new growth can sprout from it. God does not give up on his people.
Jesus quotes Isaiah’s mysterious words as he offers hope He sees new growth on the stump and says to his disciples, “Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear”. Paul also refers to Isaiah’s words when he meets resistance from Jewish leaders in Rome and they deliberately rejected the good news of salvation through Jesus. Paul then concludes, “God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”.
Today, it may seem, at first, that God blocks our healing. But that’s not true, it’s our deliberate blinding of sin. But if we follow scripture, we see that God longs for his people to turn to him, hate sin and be healed.
“Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10.
Let’s Pray
Yahweh, open my eyes and ears, that I may see and hear you’re voice. Father give me understanding of your good news, and guide me to prepare for your coming. By loving you and others and staying away from presumptuous sin. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
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