We grope for the wall like the blind;
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
Many years ago, I listened to a number of tapes of lectures from a preacher named Malcolm Smith. He gave six talks on covenants that were very formative in my early walk with the Lord. In one, he described the very person Isaiah talked about in this prophecy. It speaks of Israel’s inability to honor their covenant with God, as if they were blind and dead. The problem was that they were not blind. They saw the mighty works of the Lord. They were not dead but preserved by their covenant God who would not leave them nor forsake them, even though they deserved to be.
Malcolm Smith applied this principle to the Christians of today. We have been given sight by the Lord and we can see. If we want to sin and be like everyone else, we need to close our eyes and grope for the walls so we look like the world and maybe they would like us. It is hard, once we have seen the Lord, to pretend we haven’t. The same goes for life. We have been made alive by the saving power of the cross and yet we want to stagger around like zombies because everyone around us has decaying flesh and are dead. We want to be like everyone else so we pretend to be blind and dead.
Think what the Lord thinks of that! Today, let’s show the world that we have 20/20 vision of what Jesus has done and we are the picture of health and vitality…
Let’s wake the dead!
Pastor Brad Boyer
Cape Community Church