I Was Blind, But Now I See
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: February 06, 2011
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: The Lord / God, Regeneration / Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Freedom
How the Lord opens our intellectual, rational and spiritual eyes.
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Lessons and text
Isaiah 29:18; Luke 18: 35-43; Divine Providence 282
"To open the eyes of the blind" is to instruct those who as yet are ignorant of truths, but nevertheless have a longing for them. (Apocalypse Explained #152)
It would have been possible for the Lord to heal the understanding in every person, and so cause him to think not evil but good, and this by means of fears of various kinds, by miracles, by conversations with the dead, and by visions and dreams. But to heal the understanding alone is to heal a person outwardly only; for the understanding with its thought is the external of a person's life, while the will with its affection is the internal of his life... It is the will itself that must be healed, not by means of an influx into it of the understanding, for that is not possible, but by means of instruction and exhortation by the understanding. (Divine Providence #282)
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