In the beginning God, made the heavens and the earth and on the sixth day of creation we read that, “…God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (v.27). Question? Does God have eyes? Hagar said, “You-Are-[a]the-God-Who-Sees” (Gen. 16:13). Psalm 53 and 2 “God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God”. Peter wrote, “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” (1 Peter 3:12). Answer is clear, yes God has eyes. Therefore, it only stands to reason, it is a reasonable conclusion that when God made man, man had eyes.
The problem is that not every man uses this gift from God to his own advantage. In fact most are willfully blind to many things of God, blind to the plane teaching of the scripture concerning righteousness, worship, godly living, and even salvation. In the garden God put man in, and there the “…Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food…” (Gen. 2:9). The we read “the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you[f] shall surely die.”” (vs.16-17). Continuing to chapter 3 and verse 6, Eve, “saw that the tree was good for food, that it was [a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate” and then so did Adam.
What happened was that desire she had, and Adam caused them both to close their eyes to the Lord and commit sin. That is what the Bible means when we read, “whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them” (2 Cor. 4:4). Peter wrote, “They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you” (1 Peter 4:4).
In this lesson we will study about two kinds of blinders called “spiritual blinders” There are the kind that men wear–which keep them from seeing, and accepting the truth of God’s word. Blinders that cause people to think that Idolatry, Adultery, Lies, Homosexuality, Fornication, Abortion are acceptable. Then there are “spiritual blinders” that the man of God wears that allow his to see the things of righteousness, truth and stop looking for the things of the world. Fact is that most in this world are wearing spiritual blinders and will consider you strange because you see things the way your Creator, and your Savior do. John wrote, “We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).
The good news is that there are Spiritual blinders that keep us from worldliness, from the spirit of error, from the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life – 1 John 2:16. Join with me as we study this topic. . .