JUDICIAL BLINDNESS
JUDICIAL BLINDNESS In a particular part of a paper I read, the writer brought forth the following truth:
"I have encountered several passages recently in which I see evidence of judicial blindness. As people reject the knowledge God gives them, he imposes judicial blindness on them, a true judgment for their denial of the light they have. I believe any of us may well cross that line and invite divine judgment of this type upon ourselves. I pray that this is not the case with me. If in fact my motive is political and for personal prestige, I may be flirting with the line. Not only should we all reason with each other, we should all pray for our brethren as well."
Brethren, when I read this, I thought about God’s people among the Jewish Nation who had the very oracles of God committed unto them. Yet, in spite of this "light of truth" given them by their God, because of their unbelief, they rejected this light of knowledge, rejecting the very Lord of Glory as the true Messiah, and went about establishing their own righteousness and refused to submit themselves unto the righteousness of God. For this very reason, they invited the divine judgment of God upon themselves. So, "God blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."John 12:40
Then, with great conviction of heart and soul, I turned my eyes inward to personal self, looked in the mirror of my own heart, trembled greatly, and then seriously pondered the very beauty and preciousness of God’s revealed truth as the glorious Gospel reveals the righteousness of God from the body of God’s revealed faith to the faith He sovereignly put in my heart in regeneration. It is only by this given faith of God to which I am debtor and obligated to live a sanctified life of righteousness, glory, and honor to Jehovah God, my Glorious Redeemer. His precious, inspired, preserved, and revealed word is not a toy with which we can play, turn, twist, and wrestle to suit our own preconceived ideas and notions over which to contest and war in a rash political manner just for personal prestige.