Blindness to the Light of the Gospel

We try to preach the Gospel with clarity to the lost, but so often it seems to have no effect. Poor sinners mostly do not comprehend it in all its Glory and Beauty!

When Jesus came to Capernaum, it was said that He brought Light to a place of great darkness, fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy. The place first judged in Israel for its sin was the first to see the Glory revealed in Jesus!

But Jesus also described the failure of the people to understand the Gospel. He referred to it as blindness, and stated that they had closed their eyes to the light.

Lost men don't even know that they don't know. They are oblivious to their moral and spiritual blindness. Jesus said that a man who knows he's a sinner has hope of being set free from sin, but those who deny their blindness and their sin cannot see the light of the Gospel or receive its forgiveness.

But our Lord has the power to heal blindness! His physical healings point to the way God opens blind eyes and dead hearts to receive the Gospel.

God's Word also promises that though there is blindness, many will be blessed to see the truth.

The miracle is that any of us are converted, for we are all dead in our sin. We cannot hear, or see, or obey, or believe. But God quickens our dead hearts to believe.

Indeed, not only do we who God regenerates believe, but we see the Light! We take it in, and as we view it, we are changed by it. One day, Jesus promised His people will shine like the sun!

Surely the dying thief on the cross is the most miraculous conversion. He believed on Jesus when even His disciples had despaired. For while Jesus was dying, He was winning a great victory of redemption for us all!