ACKNOWLEDGING OUR BLIND SPOT

Apart from the flow of the Holy Spirit, we can’t even see our sin. Here is a vivid picture of how this works: When we lived in Chicago, there was a season when we would often get heavy snow. (It started in August and ended in June.) To melt snow and ice, the street crews would cover the roads with rock salt, which ended up coating car windshields. At night, driving by headlights in the dark, you don’t know the film is there. Then the sun comes up and sunlight is 500,000 times more intense than moonlight. The intensity of the sunlight illumines all the salt on the windshield, and suddenly you can’t see out of it. You can’t go anywhere. You have only two choices: Get the windshield cleaned up, or drive only at night. Avoid the light.

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light….(John 3:19)

-- John Ortberg in “The Me I Want to Be”

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