He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. (Luke 24:45 NIV)
As we contemplate the state of
things in the world today, we are very deeply impressed and oppressed with the
prevailing malady of spiritual blindness. It is the root malady of the time. We
should not be far wrong if we said that most, if not all, of the troubles from
which the world is suffering, are traceable to that root, namely, blindness. The
masses are blind; there is no doubt about that. In a day which is supposed to be
a day of unequaled enlightenment, the masses are blind.... The leaders are
blind, blind leaders of the blind. But in a very large measure, the same is true
of the Lord’s people. Speaking quite generally, Christians are today very blind.
Every bit of new seeing is a work from heaven. It is not something done fully
once for all. It is possible for us to go on seeing and seeing, and yet more
fully seeing, but with every fresh fragment of truth, this work, which is not in
our power to do, has to be done. Spiritual Life is not only a miracle in its
inception; it is a continuous miracle in this matter right on to the last.... We
do not seek for new revelation, and we do not say or suggest or hint that you
may have anything extra to the Word of God, but we do claim that there is a vast
amount in the Word of God that we have never seen, which we may see. Surely
everybody agrees with that: and it is just that – to see, and the more you see,
really see, the more overwhelmed you feel about the whole thing, because you
know that you have come to the borders of the land of far distances, lying far
beyond a short lifetime’s power of experience. The
Lord make us all to be of those who have eyes opened.