What is Spiritual Blindness?

One of the main messages of the Gospel is love. The biblical concept of love has been corrupted in the past several years by secular society. They have turned the idea of love more into lust and promote a form of self-love that is incompatible with the bible. Why is the idea of love so strong in the Bible! The answer is obvious. In 1 John 4:8 the bible says that God is love. Notice that it doesn’t say that God expresses love, or that God thinks about love, no, it says that one of God’s main attributes is love! It’s love that makes God who he is.

As humans we talk a lot about love, but I can guarantee you that there has been no other perfect human love other than Jesus Christ. This is one of the reasons why we need a Saviour. We can’t love perfectly, however the bible does tell us to love one another, and the Holy Spirit helps us to do just that, (Romans 5:5). So what is Spiritual blindness? It happens when humans fail to love, and misinterpret love. Unless we are redeemed, our natures are fallen. The reason why humanity is floundering right now is not necessarily because people are not loving, it’s because they can’t love! Only by receiving a divine nature through being born again are we truly given the capacity and the ability to love, just like God intended for humanity! Until our redemption is complete at the resurrection, our empowerment to love won’t be perfect. Unless we are redeemed, because of our fallen nature, not only will we love imperfectly, we will fail to reach God’s righteous standard in regards to love, (Romans 3:23).

All humans are made in the image of God, therefore to a certain degree of capacity everyone has the ability to receive and express love. Divine love is only experienced and understood when one becomes born again. Most human love either dies, or fades away with time. Unredeemed humans cannot truly, consistently, and honestly sustain their love for other humans over time. When a person gets saved, God comes to live inside the human soul thus giving them the ability and capacity to express, experience, and sustain love not just through time, but it will happen through all eternity! This is made possible by the divine nature. This is why people must be redeemed by God, if they are going to live forever, because God is love, and our natures must become compatible to live with God forever. This can only happen by being born again.

God’s love endures forever (Psalm 136). In order for our love to endure forever, our natures must be changed while we are on this earth. We must be born again. The capacity and the ability to dwell with pure love, in eternity, and on earth is accomplished by receiving the righteousness and forgiveness found only in Jesus Christ, and what he did for us on the cross. We must receive this redemption now if we are going to experience perfect love forever! This is Mike.

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