Blind Spot

God, who made the world, and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.  Nor is He worshiped with mens hands, as though He needed anything.  Since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.  And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and boundries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord in the hope that thy might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, "For we are also His offspring."
Acts 17: 24-28 NKJV

There is a saying that hindsight vision is 20/20.  It is easy to look back into the past and agree with history that things should have worked out differently.  Every Monday during football season our lives are filled with those monday morning quarterbacks who act as if  they had just passed up a coaching job with a Super Bowl championship team.  The would haves and should haves are argued as if they still had meaning.  Everyone seems as if they are the expert in sports information.  It's amazing that none of these masterminds have never been hired by any team anywhere.  Such a waste of talent I'm sure.  However, it is this rear view mirror thinking which often affects our relationship with our Lord as well.  To live in the past is never a good thing, for there is life here in the present.  Yet, when we adhere to a belief that there is a seperation between ourselves and God, we are experiencing a "Blind spot" in our spiritual thinking.  We often see God as one who provides, protects and comes to our aid should we need Him.  The belief that God could walk with us today seems too much for us to handle.  Anyway, God is holy, and we are but sinners saved by grace.  This is blind spot christianity.  We do well to see God for who He is, but fail to see just who we ourselves have become in the process.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God  and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 4: 4-6 NKJV

Yes, there was a time when the lure of the sin of disobedience affected us all.  In fact, it was this sin that each of us were born into {Romans 3:23}.  By one mans disobedience to God, we all faced the sin punishment we deserved.  This is history.  However, we need not live in that rear view mirror christianity any  longer.  For through the death and resurection of Christ Jesus, that "Old man" who we have spent so much time and focus on is now deceased {Romans 6:6}.  He is dead, no longer to rise again.  In fact, as my friend Dennis likes to tell it, sin is now dead to us.  Why, then, do we continue to revisit that which is dead?  I'll tell you why, blind spot christianity.  We may know or have heard of the gift of Christ Jesus, but we fail to live as if He is a part of us {Galations 2:20}.  We embrace our life of the past while ignoring the life which we have with Jesus here in the present.  We need not live in the past, for Jesus has assured us that He Himself is now a part of us.  When we look in that mirror, we see Jesus looking back upon us.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
~George Santayana~

~Scott~