Overcoming the Blind Spot

     This writing will discuss the “Blind Spot” which exist. As Christians we often read the scripture where Master Jesus teaches about removing the log out of your own eye first before attempting to remove the splinter out of another’s eye. This is a fundamental principle of Christianity. If you would correct and teach another and you yourself do what you tell the other not to do then you would be rightly called a hypocrite. This behaviour, Christian leader, should not be so. We will discuss how we remove this “Blind Spot” out of one’s life.

     As our faith teaches, these things are discerned spiritually; we start with our faithful teachings of Master Jesus: The Scripture’s says:

Matthew: 7

³And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

⁴Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

⁵Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

     Our Lord is trying to inform us about the “Blind Spot” that we have in not seeing our own actions. Often Christians wonder why things are not going the way they ought to or the way they would have them to go. That is to say the results are not the fruit they intended, they thought they were planting a certain type of tree but when examined it was actually the fruit of a different type of tree. Therefore, the wrong tree was planted because the fruit was true to the tree.

     A lot of people pray for a certain thing or event, without seeing the actual manifestations of what they prayed for. Does this mean that their faith is not working? Heaven forbid.

     What we believe, or what we think we believe is where we will begin our exploration of this idea of removing the “Blind Spot.”

      With our intellect we conceive of thoughts which are in our mind and part of our soul. In our heart (sprit) we believe. If there is a disconnect between what we think and what we believe then we actually don’t manifest what we think we believe but rather something apart from faith and more akin to disbelief. Therein is the Hypocrisy: Not seeing, because of the “Blind Spot,” but all the while professing to see, however the fruits of one’s actions speaking to the contrary of what they are professing. The battle is fought in the mind: Yet the heart does not believe, consequently is not in agreement and does not follow, therefore no treasure is manifested, or the results are not what was expected, by the prayer of spoken thoughts because the battle was not actually completely won in the innermost parts of the being, and the victories not transferred to the heart, (so to speak: the spoils of spiritual warfare were not taken) thus the heart does not believe (truth in the innermost parts) relying only on the mind to know “truth” and the mind’s factual thinking erroneously that mental labors will produce spiritual results when spirit produces spiritual results and physical efforts produces earthy outcomes. Not understanding that physical actions produce physical results: Spiritual actions produce spiritual results. Therein lies disconnect, what I have called; the Christian “Blind Spot”.

     One could argue that this is the break that Satan introduced as sin in the Garden. This breaking between intellect and spirit, between mind and heart, which leads to death, is a sin as the result of disobedience. If we disconnect from our creator and sustainer then we die. In the heart of eve she had the truth, which said that if you eat from the knowledge of good and evil then you shall surely die. Her eyes, mind power lust over ruled her spirit, she listen to her mind and not to her heart. This introduced a new way of thinking departing from what was good only thinking (innocence) into the knowledge of good and evil thinking. This type of existence leads to death. This was because they had not yet eaten from the Tree of Life. To their cursing however, they did eat from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, thus becoming like God and having such knowledge. Without the power to sustain life evil in the inner-most parts of our human existences leads to death. Therefore we needed a savior, Lord Jesus and he has given us the gift of the Holy Spirit that we might have life and life abundantly. Without mending this disconnect there can be no life.

     In the scripture it says:

Hebrews 11

¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ² For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

³ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

     In this famous doctrine to the Hebrews, we better understand faith which is alive. We start with the unseen, like for example the architect starts building a building in his mind, the building is yet unseen and only in the mind of the planner. So things are in the mind of men. Then the architect puts his thoughts to paper. Making visions then revisions until his plans are complete and ready for the physical building stage. Then he gathers the resources to build the physical building. Once he is sure of his resources and all his permits are in order he then begins. He is careful that he does not lose his capital by poor building and or mismanagement. Then as the building goes up he inspects to make sure all is in order. Finally the building is complete and the marvel was brought forth by the hand of man.

     Now in the spirit realm we begin an endeavor with prayer. First we align ourselves with the word of God, that is to say we check and make sure our request is in line with what has already been spoken either to us or it is in the Bible. If we don’t do this we may actually be workers of iniquity and evil doers. We even could be working against the plan of God without knowingly understanding. This also is a “Blind Spot.”Next we then have the designed plan or the vision. A spiritual journey or endeavor begins with a vision of the plan in the mind. The details may be sparse in the vision but the direction is specific. Then the actions taken, bringing the vision to life by carrying out what was communicated in the spirit actually being done in the physical world, earth plane. I ask this question, if we don’t listen to the spirit as Christians how can God who is spirit tell us anything? The Holy Spirit seeks us, can we be found?

      This “Blind Spot” is what our Savior Lord Jesus would deliver us from; he has used his anointed word to teach us to renew our minds. Jesus was anointed to:

1.   To preach God’s truth.

2.   He was sent to heal the brokenhearted.

3.   He preaches deliverance to the captives.

4.   The recovery of sight to the blind.

5.   To set at liberty them which are bruised.

6.   To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

In another place it says;

                           The Redeemer of Zion

 Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
 that there was no justice.
 He saw that there was no man,
 and wondered that there was no intercessor;
 Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
 and His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

     So our Lord noticed that there was a “Blind Spot” and no one was aware of it. Why was there no intercessor? It was surely not that man did not have religion. Lots of people try to live religious lives, following the rules and traditions that were done before them. Even today that is the way it is for most. So why was the LORD displeased? Was it because we having the “Blind Spot” could not see our way back into right relationship with the Living God? I suggest that it was so much so that there needed to be recovery of sight to the blind – people were in fact blind to the spirit realm, as well as not hearing they could not see it. Now with the knowledge written in the Bible we can understand and see the Kingdom of God, the living spirit realm. How you may ask? Well my apprentice friend, we look at the actions of people if we want to know the spirit which controls them: We look at the trees to see the wind blowing. Further, in wisdom we can test the spirit by the Spirit to see if a spirit is of God. How you may ask? Well my novice friend we know if that spirit acknowledges Lord Jesus has in fact come and is from God then that spirit speaks the truth in this regard we know by the word of faith.

     This also is a “Blind Spot” that we have: Not understanding the mission and true teachings of Jesus. Men ought to pray one for another as intercessors. Men ought to teach each other the words of God’s truth: As a friend helps another. Our foundation must be in the correct understanding of truth, which is the Gospel. If we don’t accept the truth because of our own reason then consider that there could be a “Blind Spot” preventing the truth from taking root in the mind and producing the desired fruit of the spirit.

     Jesus in his mission statement in Luke 4 explained what he is anointed to do and where we find that one of his assignments is to give the recovery of sight to the blind. Now if we consider that expressing recovery of sight implies that at one time there was sight but now there is blindness we can understand better why men have fallen short of the Glory of God. It is not that a man wants to miss the mark, men don’t even see the mark, thus the wander blindly like a man in the desert on a three day journey, walking for forty years and not having found his destination he dies still wandering and looking for what is there in front of him. He was blind and could not see it – it was there all the while but, he could not see it.

     The Bible says that those who God foreknew he predestine. The scriptures tell us that all things are working together for our good if we who love God are working according to his purpose. We who claim to be Christ like, and that is what the word Christian means, to be Christ like, we ought to conform to the image of Jesus, the living Jesus. If being in the image of Jesus then the faith that he teaches us we follow and in doing so are justified by this obedience to our belief thus bringing glory to our God and our own lives. In this we bring a spiritual message into the physical world by what we believe thus performing living faith by the spoken word of God. It was spoken in the spirit and manifested in the physical world thus showing the power of God and giving glory to him which is as we believe. In doing this we overcome the blind spot and gain the victory.

     The way to overcome the “Blind Spot” is by obedience to the faith, a sort of a blind obedience. Quite ironic that God chose blind obedience as a way of overcoming blindness but that is our God. He works in a mysterious way, see Mark 4: 10-12. The Lord God is awesome. If we observe the blindness of Israel as a lessons to us, knowing that one day all Israel will be saved, and please remember when I speak of Israel I am speaking of God’s chosen people, that is what the word means, God’s chosen people. Are all Jews descendants of Abraham by faith? Are all God’s chosen people descendants of Abraham by faith? The distinction is the difference. It is by faith that we receive his righteousness, is it not? The victory is at hand.

    Let’s pray: Lord Jesus, we thank you for this day of victory and grace. What a mighty God you are. Lord thank you for taking away the “Blind Spot” and restoring our sight. Only you Lord could do such a marvelous thing. I truly thank you for your help. You are truly a friend who sticks closer than a brother. You are the lover of my soul. I do love you. I do deeply thank you. All your marvelous work in perfecting my soul is a wondrous work and a mystery divine. Thank you for revealing all these things to me. Please continue. As I stand on the scripture: Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me MATTHEW 16:24 and in another place it says:

                     Jesus Counsels the Rich Young Ruler Matthew:  19

   ¹⁶ Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”
¹⁷ So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
¹⁸ He said to Him, “Which ones?”
Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ¹⁹ ‘Honor your father and your mother, and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
²⁰ The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?”
²¹ Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
²² But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.  

     We who come after you, we who have denied ourselves, we who have receive the atonement,  do wish perfection, we do wish to be made whole, therefore we ask for sight that we might see, amen. Father we ask this in the power and authority of Lord Jesus our high priest, amen.

And so it shall be done.