My son, Tim, asked me to read a book he had to read for school, Night, about one surviving Jew's story of the extermination of the Jews in Hungary under Hitler's regime. It's so sad...and mind boggling how someone's thinking can be so twisted and corrupted.
Then the Apostle Paul comes to mind. Paul, then known as Saul, was passionate. He boldly lived out what he was convinced of--what he believed was right. He was determined and successful in the mission he was carrying out (exterminating Christians). Unfortunately, he was deceived and unable to see truth, but he was also unable to discern his own blindness to truth.
Finally God got his attention by physically blinding him. His physical blindness allowed him to see the truth of his spiritual blindness. Eventually, the "scales" fell off his eyes and he was finally able to see both physically and spiritually. I wonder if the scales were what God used to cause the physical blindness OR if the scales were already there causing the spiritual blindness, and finally, understanding truth, they came off.
I'm constantly seeing and interacting with people who are spiritually blind. They believe they see truth. Sometimes it's a teenager who's convinced his parents are ruining his life, so he fights against them. Sometimes it's misunderstandings in who we really are (self-concept) that cause us to think others are against us...and we attack them...and sometimes ourselves.
We need God's truth. We need to understand, in those times, that we have a spiritual blindness that steals our joy and our God-given purpose. We need the scales to fall from our eyes.
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