The Tragedy of Blindness By Paul Chappell Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014 “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians 4:1–4 Born in a small village near Paris in 1809, Louis Braille loved to play in his father’s leather working shop. An accident with an awl when he was just three, and a subsequent infection left Braille completely blind by the time he was five. Sent to Paris to attend one of the few schools in the world for blind children, Louis Braille found the system for reading for the blind to be extremely difficult, and the system for writing almost non-existent. By the time he was fifteen, the brilliant young man had adapted a French military code into what we now call the Braille alphabet which blind people could read and write. For the first time, doors of opportunity and understanding were opened to those who could not see. The Bible often describes the condition of the lost with the metaphor of blindness. A person who is blind needs help from someone else in order to find his way. He is not capable of discerning his surroundings and circumstances. The major difference between physical blindness and spiritual blindness is awareness—a blind man knows he cannot see, but often a lost man does not realize the true state of his soul. The work of the soulwinner is to bring the light and hope of the gospel to the lost. Today’s Renewal Principle: By taking the gospel to the lost we defeat Satan’s plan to keep them bound in darkness and blindness.
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