Blind Men

John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

Ever heard the phrase none are so blind as those who refuse to see? Sadly I see some who are even worse than those. We have experience in these times those who are like the Pharisees of John 9:40. These are those who have heard the truth and come to an understanding that the truth is talking about themselves and in their arrogance choose to stay blind. These blind men are arrogant enough to say “We are in charge here, we make the laws and we will have our way.”

Psalms 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

These blind men say they are not fools. They are well educated, passed the bar and now make the laws. They have overcome ignorance only to surrender to the darkness of their own hearts. They read Plato rather than Job, Socrates rather than Isaiah and Voltaire rather than the Psalms. They are more likely to believe Nemo controls The Matrix than the God of Abraham controls the universe.

Sadly for those of us who know and follow Truth, we are more likely to live the life of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: where the prince of eunuchs gave them new names. Just as the leadership of those days stopped worshipping God, history is repeating itself, and the innocent suffer because of it.

So what are we to do about it now? I can only say to follow the example of Daniel and no matter what happens, no matter where life takes us, stand for the truth and bow before no man.

Forgery

Psalm 119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

Have you ever read The Imitation of Christ? It is a great work but personally I do not like the title. In part it has to do with value. Is a forgery of the Mona Lisa worth as much as the real painting? No. It has a beauty of its own and to the untrained eye appears genuine, but is in fact a fake.

What is the value of a fake if it is not passed off as the original but for what it truly is, imitation? Now it takes on value of its own. It is viewed as inspiration of beauty which is achievable in cost to the buyer. In the end the buyer understands he doesn’t have the real thing and no matter how much he appreciates the imitation, it is a fake and he knows it.

Christ in you is not an imitation, He is not a forgery, He is God. So often we look at ourselves as imitations and in doing so devalue ourselves because we know we are nothing but a forgery. That in itself is a misrepresentation of God’s creation. We were never meant to be created as Christ but merely vessels in which Christ might dwell, live and work. To call the vessel Christ is a disservice to Christ and the vessel.

Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

In our pursuit of the created likeness we intellectually pursue understanding as it is a learned thing. We go the school for God. We study, we test, we self-examine and either find self-satisfaction or vanity of effectiveness. We see the painting and either admire it for what it is or call it a fake. Neither is real.

Who Christ is in me is not all of Christ. Who I am in Christ is not all of me. We are but part.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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