SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/22/2016 11:31 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Spiritual Blindness Refuses to Admit its
Condition
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 9:40
Message of the verses: We have today a very long title to this SD
for a very short SD. “40 Those of the
Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, "We are
not blind too, are we?’”
Now we have
to understand that the question that the Pharisees asked Jesus when looked at
in the Greek language expects a negative answer. MacArthur adds “Surely Jesus could not be
suggesting that they were spiritually blind like the common people who did not
know the Law (7:49)? After all, they
were the elite, self-proclaimed experts in the Law and devout disciples of
Moses (9:28).” “Some of the Pharisees
near him overheard this and said, "So we’re blind, too, are we?’(John 9:40
Phillips).” My thoughts are that they
though too much of themselves and they knew that Jesus was telling them that
they were blind to the spiritual things that He was teaching and I am sure that
this bruised their egos. The problem was
that they refused to admit that they were blind, and because of that they
remained blind. They were missing the
only chance they had to be saved from Satan and from damning sin, but they
refused that offer.
Warren
Wiersbe writes the following on this verse in his commentary in a chapter he
entitled “The Blind Man Calls Their Bluff.”
The listening Pharisees heard what Jesus said and it disturbed
them. ‘Are we blind also?’ they asked,
expecting a negative answer. Jesus had
already called them ‘blind leaders of the blind (Matt. 15:14), so they had
their answer. They were blinded by their
pride, their self-righteousness, their tradition, and their false
interpretation of the Word of God.” We
will look at the answer that Jesus give them in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: The Bible has little if anything to say about
pride and it is something I pray about everyday that the Lord will keep me away
from it. Pride can get you into nothing
but trouble, so I need to stay away from it and trust the Lord to care for all
of my needs.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Stay away from prideful
thoughts and actions.
Memory verses for the week:
(Romans. 6:1-4). “1. What shall
we say then? Are we to continue in sin
so that grace may increase? 2. May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in
it? 3.
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ
Jesus have been baptized into His death.
4. Therefore we have been buried
with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Jonathan” (1 Samuel 2:1-14).
Today’s Bible question:
“How many books are called minor prophets?”
Answer in our next SD.
7/22/2016 11:55 AM
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