What made them blind? I believe
they were blind to God’s counsel for the nation, blind to who Jesus was, blind
to the hour and season of their visitation and blind to the spiritual condition
of the nation.
They had the law, which testified
of Jesus, they knew the prophecies but they could not find direction and light
from them. It was a terrible situation, the people depended on them for
direction but they themselves did not know where they were going.
I was talking to someone on my
way back from a trip to Abuja and as we talked about the state of the nation
and the Church and how the Church had unwittingly contributed to our present
situation, as we talked this phrase from the scripture above jumped into my
mind
The blind leading the blind will
cause both to fall into the same ditch.
in the 19th Chapter of
Luke, Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they did not know the day of their
visitation, He foresaw the end of their blindness and the events that would
befall the nation. Most of the things Jesus foresaw came to pass with the
sacking of Jerusalem in AD70 and the terrible things that happened at that
time. These things were not the will of God, they were avoidable but because of
the blindness of the leadership they whole nation was plunged into a crises.
Leadership is everything, whether
in secular or spiritual contexts. Prayer is great, the Pharisees were given to
much prayer, activity and discipleship is wonderful, but Pharisees also
excelled in that what they lacked was sight, am inability to discern times and
seasons, a lack of revelation of what God was saying and doing and an inability
to find direction from the prophetic word for the nation.
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