We could bump into each other; cars could crash into each other; no one would have any direction about where they are going; there actually would be no need to go anywhere because everything would be dark and we would not be able to see; the death rate would drastically increase because even if we attempted to live in this world without light our risks for trying foods we cannot see and drink liquids we cannot see could possibly kill us. Imagine learning about someone dying from drinking bleach, liquid soap, or a full bottle of Golden Grain alcohol because they could not see the packaging label.
Darkness is dangerous.
Light is an aid and an assistance to living. It would take me years to tell you the advantages to having light, but we all know that people still die with light; but there would be far more fatalities if there were no light.
Natural darkness is dangerous, but now imagine spiritual darkness.
Spiritual darkness is a condition and to live in spiritual darkness is far worse because the breath of God is the substance that gave us life and there is no darkness in God. He is the Light of the World and the He is the light that shines brightly in us. When God gave us life, He did not breathe a dark substance in us, but He breathed life and in the life HE gave us there is light!
There are a few ideas about spiritual darkness I want to share with you and feel free to think of more ideas about spiritual darkness. First remember that darkness leads to death and light is an aid to improve life.
Spiritual darkness is a condition of a person that disables them from choosing right from wrong and godly from ungodly. Without going into too much detail about the "spirit man" and/or "inner man" our spirit has an anatomy. Yes, our spirit has a body just as anything else that has life. Plants have life therefore they have an anatomy. Frogs have life and they have an anatomy. I cannot at this moment, think of anything that has life that does not have an anatomy. (If you think of something, please let me know in the comments) If our spirit has an anatomy then our spirit has eyes and ears. Darkness is more associated with sight than deafness. Therefore, when a person is experiencing a condition of spiritual darkness, they are unable to see the true essence of anything. Meaning, they see things from a natural perspective than God's perspective. God is spirit so we are actually supposed to view and approach our lives and other's lives from a spiritual perspective.
We are spirit just as God is spirit. God said, "Let Us make man in Our image." God is spirit so God made us in His spiritual image bearing the glory and light of our Lord Jesus Christ. Since God created us in His image, His intent was that whoever would look at us, they would recognize God in us. (Mendez-Ferrell, "The Spirit of Man") Hebrews 12.9 says,"Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?" He is our Father and we are "sons of God."
The overall issue is that to be spiritually blind means we cannot discern our spiritual condition and leaving our spiritual condition totally up to God was not the reason why He gave the gift of discerning spirits. Therefore, we should not have an Eli attitude-which at best was a lazy attitude- that exudes this callously lazy yet whimsical behavior communicating that "I will leave my spiritual condition totally up to God because I have no power to do anything about it."
There is something we can do and we have been given gifts to partner with God; to perform the works of the Spirit of the Living God!
Now in Jonah 4, God's sorrow with the people of Nineveh was that, even after they repented and turned from their ways, there were still more than 120,000 people in Nineveh who were living in spiritual darkness. God's sadness and even frustration with their condition was warranted because He did not create them to live in spiritual darkness that lead to spiritual blindness. The cure for spiritual darkness is salvation, and the cure to spiritual blindness is sanctification, a spiritual cleansing/conversion, as a result of being baptized with the Holy Spirit.
DISCLAIMER: GOD DID NOT CREATE YOU TO LIVE IN SPIRITUAL DARKNESS TO BE SPIRITUALLY BLIND!
This article, in no way, shape, or form, was not written to ridicule anyone for being spiritually blind. This article is to point out the dangers of being spiritually blind and to let you know that the Holy Spirit is the Helper that will cause you to see!
The Holy Spirit will restore your eyesight, but you have to let Him direct your paths. Stevie Wonder is blind and he needs help with getting around. He realizes He needs help and that is why I believe Stevie Wonder is to be healthily blind.
The Holy Spirit is your aid to get around, walk in the right direction, see what is in front, behind, around, and way ahead of you. To rely on the Holy Spirit is to free yourself from the assistance of things that will not cause you to go in the right direction.
If you want to see things that are coming, that are near, but that are far off from your viewpoint, ask the Holy Spirit to show the things that are coming. In fact, you really do not need to ask the Holy Spirit to do something that He has been sent to do. Its like, you do not have to ask, beg, and plead with a mop to mop the floor! All you do is get the mop, and by faith, use the mop, and partner with the mop to clean the floor. This is the same with the Holy Spirit; partner with Him.
Join in on the work of the Holy Spirit! He will guide you into all truth and show you things to come; things you have not fathomed, thought about, saw coming, and even heard of. The Spirit of God will show you things eyes have not yet seen, and tell you things ears have not yet heard, and give you intimate details about things that have not entered into the heart of man.
When you go to God and say, I am available to receive, discern, know, understand, and utilize what you want me to know, who you want me to be, and what I must do, then you will no longer be spiritually blind maneuvering in the dark places in the spirit and in the natural.
Your spirit married to the Spirit of God is a miracle waiting to take place; Your spirit married to the Spirit of God will find you healed; Your spirit married to the Spirit of God is a breakthrough waiting to happen; Your spirit married to the Spirit of God is a changed life forever more.
Don't you want to experience and do something new? Don't you want to experience the adventures God wants you to experience in order to know Him on a deeper level?
Partner with the Holy Spirit in your inner man and as every body does, it will take on form, shape, and growth.
Come out of spiritual darkness and live in the Light of Jesus Christ!
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