No Other Rock

And the world knew Him not. ~ John 1:10

Note: This devotion is from October 13 and 15

Let’s continue with the idea of being so blind, we do not recognize our creator.

When we consider sin, we view it mainly as a transgression of moral law. Sin, however, is also a hereditarily transmitted disease in the moral nature of our fallen humanity. It causes chronic spiritual blindness. It establishes jealous pride , selfish ambitions and knowing hypocrisy among many other maladies.

Isreal’s leaders kept begging for signs – yet all the while, those signs were being given. In actuality, they should have sought sight. Their self-blindness led to the rejection and humiliation of their non-resisting Messiah-Sinbearer.

Baxter does a nice job of illustrating this information in the devotion for October 13th in a story that says:

In Whales there is a romantic village, Beddgelert, the name of which means ‘The grave of Gelert’. There is a famous legend about this Gelert, which was a dog, the hound of Llewellyn the Great. One day, on returning to his castle, Llewellyn found his child lying dead, and the hound, Gelert, beside it. Llewellyn at once plunged his sword into the poor animal, only to discover too late a huge wolf which had attached the child, and which the faithful hound had slain. In his blind rage, Llewellyn had killed a faithful friend. In a far more terrible sense, that is what all Christ-rejectors are doing today. In their awful spiritual blindness they are repudiating their truest Friend and Saviour.

Today, I pray that you and I will seek sight over signs.