BLINDED MINDS

 

Thursday, May 11, 2023

 

BLINDED MINDS

 

2 Cor 4:3-4

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom the god of this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. KJV

 

2 Peter 3:3

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: KJV

 

          Paul reminded the Corinthian church that Satan is busy clouding minds and questioning truth. This was a thinly veiled condemnation of their own confused thinking. Part of their confusion was, no doubt, cultural. Corinth was a bustling trade route and into it flowed strange things, strange languages, and strange beliefs. It was easy to become a cultural, moral, religious stew.

 

          Education is not the answer to moral, political, and religious confusion. Religion, as an institution, is not the answer either because many people will gravitate to mystic aestheticism instead of truth clad in common clothes. If you doubt this simply picture the itinerant Jesus and the stuffy Pharisees. One was common clad and the other was adorned in ornate garb.

 

          Peter affirmed that we are often complicit in our own ignorance because it is more popular and more comfortable to be ignorant than enlightened. We group together in clans and gangs so that we don’t have to exert much energy in thinking. In this we are “willingly ignorant.”

 

Heb 4:1-2

4 Let us therefore fear [be alarmed], lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. KJV

         

Lord, let me know the truth that I may be free. Let me tell the truth so that others may be free as well. AMEN