According to some definitions when you ask about degrees of blindness, it will immediately go to the medical consideration of legal blindness which starts at 20/200 or worse. I do not want to get into the logic behind this consideration or what it means but I certainly do not want to get into the passenger seat of a person driving with this condition. Would you?
I prefer just to talk generally that we are all subject to degrees of blindness. The absence of energy which produces heat yields degrees of coldness. Likewise, the absence of light yields degrees of darkness. If you close your eyes very tightly to block out light, you may have a very brief glimpse of what a blind person sees with his other abilities. Is a blind person different than anyone else? No! Do they have a different perspective to the world around us? Yes! Consider the story in John 9. The teachers of the law or Pharisees accused a blind man as being a sinner and certainly not as informed about the world according to their perspective. He was cured by Jesus on the Sabbath. That was against the laws as understood by the Pharisees so therefore he was a sinner. Let me try to understand this logic. The blind man or his parents were sinners because he was born blind. Jesus was considered a sinner because he performed a miracle on a Sunday. The Pharisees were disciples of Moses because they knew God spoke to Moses. So does that make the Pharisees right? The blind man was questioned repeatedly how he received his sight as they refused to believe the miracle. Verse 25 says it all. The blind man said all he knew was that he was blind and now he can see. He went on to say this is incredible that the so call intelligent people can be so blind. How did they react? He was expelled from their society. Does any of this story run very close to our own current so called modern day society?
I believe that we all have degrees of blindness. Our vision is too narrow to see the world from other’s perspectives. Perhaps, we should see more with our heart and soul and less with our limited logic of the world.
Let’s look for the miracles of faith around to see the true light.
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