By Shirley Wiggins
“Since
you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you;
…” Isaiah 43.4
There she is – the
blind woman.
You’ve seen her
before and wondered that she had no seeing loved one or even a friend to come
alongside her on her way.
How did she get
here? She can’t see to walk so she
certainly didn’t drive herself here.
Who could just drop
her off and leave her alone to make her own way through crowded aisles, making
her selections without being able to read the labels?
Surely her
conglomeration of things she’s gathered into her basket can never be combined
to be useful! Why does no one offer to
help her?
People, especially
other women, walking all around her, making their own selections with eyes that
see while she gropes to find by feeling for her needs.
Why will no one help
her? Why do we pretend not to see what
we see?
Women of all ages in
all stages of their lives surround us every day. We see their plight – and turn away. We close
our own eyes and pretend not to see what we do see, nor to understand what we
do hear.
The spiritually deaf
and blind and mute abound on Planet Earth.
We see them every day. Some of
them we know personally.
What will become of
our children and grandchildren in the coming generations if the seeing refuse
to see and say, and if the hearing ear
blocks access to our hearts, and if the
mouth remains mute refusing to share the good news of Jesus Christ?
To keep to ourselves
the divine truth that the Messiah has come is a sin too grievous to
contemplate! He has come and died and
been resurrected in all power to save all those with eyes to see and ears to
hear, hearts to care, minds to believe -- souls in need of a Savior.
Who is she, the
unknown (or perhaps known) woman, young or old, who continually crosses your line of vision,
whether your physical eyes or the spiritual eyes of your heart, with her bundle
of needs she doesn’t yet know how to meet as God intended?
That woman who deals
with life’s difficulties in ways you know are destined to bring only misery and
pain resulting in heartache and grief?
Do we think that God
doesn’t notice or care about those who have never known Him or perhaps who have
just wandered far away from Him by missing the mile markers blowing past them
in their desperate flight through life?
The Lord does notice
and He does care about all to whom He has given the breath of life. Moreover, He wants His own children to care
about all people: those who’ve seen the Light and run toward
it, those who’ve seen it yet ran away
from it, and those who’ve never seen it. (See John 1:1-51.)
God’s desire is that
all people would see the Light of His Gospel Truth and run to Jesus! God’s desire is that all His people would be
bearers of the message: His
message. Time will run out before we’re
ready, don’t wait to get involved with the folks who can’t yet see the Light
and hear His voice calling them into relationship with Himself and His
children.Isaiah 42:18-25 The Message (MSG)
You’ve
Seen a Lot, but Looked at Nothing:
18-25 Pay attention! Are you deaf?Open your eyes! Are you blind?
You’re my servant, and you’re not looking!
You’re my messenger, and you’re not listening!
The very people I depended upon, servants of God,
blind as a bat—willfully blind!
You’ve seen a lot, but looked at nothing.
You’ve heard everything, but listened to nothing.
God intended, out of the goodness of his heart,
to be lavish in his revelation.
But this is a people battered and cowed,
shut up in attics and closets,
Victims licking their wounds,
feeling ignored, abandoned.
But is anyone out there listening?
Is anyone paying attention to what’s coming?
Who do you think turned Jacob over to the thugs,
let loose the robbers on Israel?
Wasn’t it God himself, this God against whom we’ve sinned—
not doing what he commanded,
not listening to what he said?
Isn’t it God’s anger that’s behind all this,
God’s punishing power?
Their whole world collapsed but they still didn’t get it;
their life is in ruins but they don’t take it to heart.
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