Woe to the Spiritually Blind

   
      I have a quite Liberal Facebook Friend who doesn't get it on most Political Issues. That is OK!, most Liberals don't get it on any issue. But Moral issues are another matter. This man is a Church Member. When the Democrat Party Platform specifically calls for Murdering Unborn Babies by using our Tax Dollars to fund Planned Parenthood, it becomes a Moral and an Ethical Issue. When this Party Boos God at its National Convention with Live TV Coverage; it becomes a Moral Issue. When the Platform encourages Abnormal Sex as if it were Normal; it becomes a Moral issue. My contention is that no person calling themselves Christian can in good Conscience vote for any Candidate supporting the Democrat Platform or running on their ticket.

       I told my friend recently to Wake Up on a certain issue. He told me he was both Awake and Alert. I contend he is not. I contend in fact that somewhere around 90% of Christians are not. They are in many ways Spiritually Blind. Oh, they may know Jesus. They may have Professed Him as their Personal Savior. They may Pray every day, attend Church 3 or 4 times a week, tithe, work in some Missionary Effort, Volunteer at VBS, etc., etc., etc. But are their eyes open to the Whole Picture? I say not!

 

      You can see Poverty. You can care about it deeply. But if you don't realize the world has no cure for Poverty, what good does seeing and caring do? Jesus said: 

Matthew 26:11 (KJV) ¹¹  For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. 

      We will always have the poor to feed and clothe. There is a new Crop of Poor every day. We feed them, clothe them, dress them for a job interview, buy them some tools, get them hired and trained and then what? Some succeed, some quit and we get to start the cycle all over again, I used do exactly what I just outlined in a Welfare to Work Agency I headed. One day a girl I had had pity on and helped with the down payment on a car was found by the Police, the same day she received the car, passed out from sniffing glue, in the driver's seat of the car I had helped provide so she could drive to work.
      It isn't the clothing, the job, or the car that the poor need. It is a Life with Purpose, and that Purpose has to be Jesus or it won't work. Jesus is always the answer to whatever the Problem.
      You can see Pain. You can have very real Sympathy, but if you just say "I'll be Praying for you.", there has been no real intercession on their behalf. I always try to make myself Pray right there on the spot. How dare we forget to do what we say? God never forgets. He keeps every tear we cry in a bottle with our label on it.
Psalm 56:8 (KJV) ⁸  Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
      God knows every wrong turn we have ever made, and he has kept a record of every tear our wanderings have caused us. We need to share how God wants to help when we are hurting. We may understand it as Mature Christians, but baby Christians may not, they need support. 

      Finally as Christians we should be able to See The Truth. Jesus said:
 Mark 8:18 (KJV) ¹⁸  Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
      We Christians are supposed to have been taught the Truth. We have heard it and read it in Sunday School Class for all these years. We have had Discipleship Training. We should be able to look at the Democrat Platform, or the News, or a Late Night Comedy Routine and see what is behind it from a Spiritual Perspective. The Holy Spirit is supposed to Guide us in All Truth.
 John 16:13 (KJV) ¹³  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
      Yes, You can tell if say David Muir of ABC News, or Steven Colbert, or Nancy Pelosi is telling you the truth, no matter what the format. Unfortunately we even have to watch our Pastors, especially those that don't open the Bible in their Sermons like they should. If what your Pastor is saying does not line up with the Bible, you need a new Church and a new Pastor. Even a Pastor, like my friend, can be Asleep at the wheel, or worse Spiritually Blind.