No Longer Blind To Sin

September 23

Until the light of Jesus shines upon us, until our blind eyes are opened to behold the glory of our Lord and Savior, until we perceive with our spirit the reality of all He has saved us from, until we realize that we are dead in trespasses and sin, we haven’t any conceptualization of the depth of depravity of our existence.

We blithely go about our enjoyment of our evil pursuits, we glibly disdain the holy name that is above all names, the one name that is “given under heaven whereby men might be saved” Acts 4:12, until such time as we perceive the need we never knew we had—the need for One who is holy to cleanse us from our flagrant sin and wretchedness.

Our God has always known that man would need a Savior and long before Jesus came He promised that He would supply man’s crying need. We know that our Triune God took counsel with Himself in the Heavenlies (Revelation 13:8) and ordained that the need for a righteous, holy, spotless Lamb would be supplied as the sacrifice for sin.

Then, the promise was articulated by the prophet in Isaiah 42:16: “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the darkness into light before them…I will not forsake them.” No longer blind to sin, no longer walking dark paths, we now walk with our precious Jesus in His light.