there are none so blind…

I remember seeing a news report that showed a mom and dad crying over their son pictured kneeling by the side of the man who was just before cutting his head from his shoulders, they were crying, so was I. We also see on the news that children are being used as human shields, but then that is nothing new is it? Remember the stories that came out of Viet Nam? Not only were they used as human shields they were handed guns and equipped with bombs and sent into the midst of our troops to wreck havoc. Israel is fighting to keep their homeland and others are fighting to take it away from them. War, war, rumors of war, does that sound like something you may have read in the Bible?

Luke 21:25-28 “It will seem like all hell has broken loose—sun, moon, stars, earth, sea, in an uproar and everyone all over the world in a panic, the wind knocked out of them by the threat of doom, the powers-that-be quaking.  “And then—then!—they’ll see the Son of Man welcomed in grand style—a glorious welcome! When all this starts to happen, up on your feet. Stand tall with your heads high. Help is on the way!”

That is a very small thumbnail of what is going on in the world, I didn’t mention the sex-slave trade which is rampant, drugs on our streets and the drug-lords who are making their money on the misery of people who need their merchandise, I want to get a little closer to home.

There is a scripture in Isaiah that in context is speaking to His people concerning things that are going to happen and we see all of those things coming to pass as I speak…yes we are all affected by it, the whole globe, the community of the earth, we are all in trouble. Isaiah 42:17-20 Pay attention! Are you deaf? 
 Open your eyes! Are you blind? 
 You’re my servant, and you’re not looking! 
 You’re my messenger, and you’re not listening! 
The very people I depended upon, servants of God, 
 blind as a bat—willfully blind! 
You’ve seen a lot, but looked at nothing. 
 You’ve heard everything, but listened to nothing. 
God intended, out of the goodness of his heart, 
 to be lavish in his revelation. 
 But this is a people battered and cowed, 
 shut up in attics and closets, 
Victims licking their wounds, 
 feeling ignored, abandoned. 
But is anyone out there listening? 
 Is anyone paying attention to what’s coming?”

If I were going to tell you in a short statement what I get from that verse it would be, “There are none so blind as he who will not see and none so deaf as he who will not hear.”