Imagine a life being blind.
Every day, you wake up, but the lights are still off. You never see the sunrise or the light that a new day brings and so it’s hard to imagine why everyone makes such a big deal about it. You stumble around whenever you go to a new place; it is totally unfamiliar to you. You miss out on the complete experience of activities like watching movies and shopping for clothes with friends and painting a picture.
It’s easy to see how being blind takes away some freedoms, opportunities, and realities. But today I saw how being bind can help some things make more sense.
Team Unashamed went to a school for the blind today along with our Lifeboys from Abba House and most of the staff. I was asked to share a short message with the group first. The verse that the Lord gave me was about faith: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1). As I reflected on this verse, I realized how much easier it is for a blind person to have faith than a seeing person. A blind person lives every day relying not on what they can see with their eyes, but on what they believe is real and true based on other evidences and clues around them. They know what it means to believe even when they cannot see.
This beautiful girl listened to closely the whole time we spoke and shot her hand up so eagerly when we asked if anyone wanted to accept Jesus into their hearts.
As someone who can see what’s around her, I have a harder time understanding in a physical sense what it would be like to imagine light if all I could see is darkness. Spiritually speaking though, I have discovered the sense of believing without seeing that the blind are already familiar with. I can attest to the feeling of certainty that faith is. I know the light is there, because by believing in it I found myself surrounded by it. And the interesting part is that the more I believe without having to see, the more I see evidence of what I believe.
To be sure of what I hope for…now that’s a beautiful sight.
