Kittens are born blind. So are puppies, and a host of other animals. They can’t see, because it’s not time for them to use their eyes. They still need to mature before their eyes begin to function.
We can’t rush their development.
We can’t pull their eyelids open and force them to see the world around them as it really is. All we can do is keep them warm, fed, and safe from the perils around them. The truth is we find them precious simply because they can’t see. It’s part of what brings out our love and connects us to them.
We love them because they’re blind.
John 9:1 tells us about a blind man.
“And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.”
This man didn’t go blind. He was born that way. It sounds awful, but what if it wasn’t time for him to use his eyes? What if something had to happen first, such as Jesus walking by, for his eyes to begin to function? What if it was his blindness that connected Jesus to him, sparking a deeper level of love from our Lord unto the man who needed him in the midst of the perils of the world?
We’re all spiritually blind when we’re born. We live in a fog, and we stumble on the truths of God. We can’t know him, because we can’t see him.
That’s exactly why he finds us precious. He sees us stumbling around, bumping into things, and he reaches to us to guide us, even though we don’t know him. He loves us because we need his love.
Then, one day, our eyes open, and the spiritual world becomes real to us. We see the Father, and we know the source of our protection.
We begin to grow up, and in our maturity we find the world is bigger than we thought it could be. We find God, and we begin to know him for who he is.
Not everyone’s eyes are mature. The blind man had his eyes opened by Jesus, but the Pharisees were still stumbling in the dark. They questioned the blind man over and over, pressing him to reveal the source of his healing. In John 9:27, he gives them his answer.
“I have told you already, and you did not hear.”
They couldn’t make the connection. They were immature. They were spiritually unable to understand Jesus and what he’d come to do on this world.
Have we found the light? Do we see Jesus as he really is? Are we mature enough to see into the spiritual world? If not, God still loves us, specifically because we’re immature, and our eyes are still closed. He’ll continue to care for us, as he waits for us to open our eyes and come to him.
We live blinded to the spiritual world until it’s time for us to grow into maturity in Christ.
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