Living Without Sight
It is rare that we have fun being blindfolded. But it does happen. I watched eight eight-year-olds, each having a turn swinging at a pinata blindfolded, while at my granddaughter’s birthday party Saturday. Oh my, were they excited. The thrill of the adventure, the energy of the “game”: Would she be able to whack the pinata, that papier-maché minion stuffed with candy? Would he be able to swing wide enough to get a clear hit? Would that little one get her bat on the pinata, hear the container crack and candy fall to the ground?In our adult lives, we prefer seeing what goes on around us. We probably wouldn’t be caught playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, or swinging at a candy-filled pinata. We would rather walk down our path seeing, than blindfolded. We would rather be in the know, or in control, rather than blinded. And yet the Scripture tells us that it is better to walk by faith than by sight.Why is that?I believe the reason is that our Creator wants us to grow our faith. He wants us to cultivate a good crop of BELIEF. When we see what is ahead of us, we can’t cultivate faith. When we are in the know about the path charted out for us, we won’t exercise faith. That little kernel in our heart, that little gift of faith, becomes irrelevant. It dries up and dies.How wrong we are to prefer sight to faith? Can these children teach us a lesson? Can we give up control and accept our blindfolds? Can we enjoy the “game” of striking out into life without our sight?Consider this: Let’s embrace our blindfolds. Let’s play! What excitement we receive when we come into contact with our pinata. When, even though we are blindfolded, we touch our target.God’s will is our pinata. Let us move forward for the Lord, blindfolded, striving for the “will of God.” In joyous expectancy, let us wait for the moment of impact, just as the children at the birthday party did. Let us be excited, anticipating the outpouring of God’s goodness to us, just as these gleeful youngsters did, waiting for the contact with the piñata and its abundance of goodies.
How do you feel being spiritually blindfolded? What do you think the Lord is speaking to you in your blindness?
