What Does It Mean to Be "Spiritually Blind"?

Continuing to Walk in the Light of Christ

As Christians, where is our vision directed? Jesus describes our eyes as a lamp of the body and if our eyes are healthy, then our whole body will be full of light (Matthew 6:22). In contrast, if our eyes are bad, our whole body will be full of darkness. We need to fix our eyes upon Jesus with clear, direct, and eternal vision. With the word of God as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, we can know our direction is secure (Psalm 119:105). As Helen Howarth Lemmel writes in her hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” (also known as “The Heavenly Vision”):

O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

 I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that Thou art; be Thou my best thought in the day and the night, both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Ruth Clemence is a wife, mom, writer and award-winning blogger based in Cardiff, Wales. Read more at: ruthclemence.com.