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Helping to see

  “God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).

If you see a blind person stumble and fall, how would you feel? What would you do? Your heart would go out to that person. Compassion would move you to do something. You wouldn’t stop to consider whether or not you were strong enough to help.

In 2 Corinthians 4:4, the Bible talks about a different kind of blindness. “The god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” (2 Corinthians 4:4).

Some people are physically blind; many more are spiritually blind. Don’t you think it’s curious that on one hand we would rush to aid of a physically blind person who stumbles, but when we see people walk into a wall of sin, stumble over transgression, or head for a cliff completely unaware, we keep our distance? What’s more, few of us would scold a blind person for tripping over something he or she couldn’t see. But many of us are quick to berate people who bad mouth the gospel. What do they know? They are spiritually blind!

Compassion is what’s needed, the godly compassion Lord Jesus showed to people with blind eyes and blind hearts. If God made His light shine in our spiritually dark hearts, if someone once lifted us up out of the darkness with a compassionate hand, isn’t it our turn to perform that same good deed for another person?

The “blind” need help. They need a hand. Today run to the aid of someone who cannot see through his or her sin. Don’t worry about whether you are able; trust God to provide you with the resources.