Pretending Will Make Us Blind to the Truth

Pretending Will Make Us Blind to the Truth

Have you ever pretended not to see something that was

right in front of your eyes?

Have you ever closed your eyes to something?

Closing our eyes to the truth will lead to blindness toward the truth.

There are truths about ourselves that we close our eyes to.

There are also wrong things going on in front of our eyes that

we pretend not to see.

The Lord came to the Pharisees as a form of truth,

but they chose to close their eyes and pretend they didn’t see any truth in Him

because the truth He brought was confrontational.

In the Book of Matthew, Jesus talks about a group of people

whom God blinded so that they would not see the truth.

And the disciples came and said to Him,

“Why do You speak to them in parables?”

And He answered and said to them,

“To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,

but to them it has not been granted.

“For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he shall have an abundance;

but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

“Therefore I speak to them in parables;

because while seeing they do not see,

and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

“And in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,

‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;

And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

‘For the heart of this people has become dull,

And with their ears they scarcely hear,

And they have closed their eyes

Lest they should see with their eyes,

And hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart and return,

And I should heal them’”

(Matthew 13:10-15).

I always wondered why.

Now I know one reason is that they chose to close their eyes to the truth

for so long that it led them into permanent blindness.

Of course with the Lord anything is possible and

He can remove their blindness,

but we should be careful to always welcome the truth when it appears to us.

No matter how hard and confrontational it gets,

we must never close our eyes to it and never pretend we haven’t seen it.

Now is the time to ask the Holy Spirit to search our hearts

and find those areas in which we have been blinded toward the truth

so we can ask for forgiveness from the Lord.

He is so forgiving and ready to give our sight back.

Let us welcome Him as the Truth in our lives.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.