BLINDNESS 'SPIRITUAL
"The clouds hide the stars sometimes
but the stars are always there that shine for you ...
Just wait until the storm passes, "Romano Battaglia
God created man in His own image and likeness has left in his creation of a track his divinity, as a small ready to become a very bright light when activated, cared for, cherished, loved.
This little light is an inseparable part of man is a gift from God, a divine light, a breath of magic, is the law of God in human hearts, the love of God who always loves and wants to be loved.
God creating man wanted to make a special creature, an intelligent and free, just like him, "in his image and likeness", and wanted him lord of creation.
Free, capable of accepting and rejecting, choice, decide, give or take, to using his emotions, his physicality, his relationship, his intelligence, his poverty or wealth, or his hatred of his love.
We know how things went with Adam and Eve first disobeyed the first sin and the knowledge of good and evil: a dualism that for centuries people will bring with it, an adversarial approach which would be his salvation or his downfall.
The Apostle Paul writes: "In me is the desire for good, but not the capacity to implement it, because I do not do good I want, but the evil I do not want " (Rom 7.18 -19).
This man's situation: a choice continues to be on the side of good or evil, the choice of a relative or the Absolute.
At all times the men and women express and experience the essence, in substance and in taking the spiritual awareness of what it is, his conscience and his decision-making power. Its decisions good or bad, his actions, his feelings, his relationships with other human beings are compared to the divine law, universal laws and common ethical values.
The light is good, evil is darkness. The light shines, showing the beauty of life, of creation, evil is the denial, it is dark or good passenger who soon passes and does not last.
who thinks he can do whatever they want and work in this area, removes his dark side, creating a personality, mentality, behavior bonds, an act that becomes abnormal habit: "I want to do good but the evil satisfies me now ", not doing the good is lost knowledge that we can do right away from that spark of divine wisdom that is within us.
Here begins the spiritual blindness : get used to everything useful, possession, pleasure, wealth, contempt, contentment of his selfish instinct disregard for God and neighbor, always divided between the ideal and the reality of the work.
"In his pride the wicked despise the Lord
God does not require it, does not exist,
this is his thought. (Psalm 10)
Here, the evil sees injustice,
is fraught with malice, gives birth to lies.
He digs a deep well
and falls into the pit that made "Sal from 7.15 to 16
spiritual blindness is also the one mentioned by the prophet Isaiah, 29.13
"This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
worship me in vain
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. "
these words echoed Jesus
" Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven " (Mt 7:21).
The apostle Paul mentioned earlier, wants to invite us to see ourselves realistically with our bright side and dark ones. Only then will our spiritual commitment will bear fruit.
Often the spiritual blindness is like a disease, often temporary, more or less long if we can find the right medicine: desire, desire, prayer, counsel, courage to begin every time we "relax" breaking with the rhythms of life that we imposed on our lives: the consistency marks the beginning of healing, salvation, the output from blindness.
For many people the use of a friend, get help from people who are truly devoted can mean the beginning of a new path, the finding that faith, perhaps thought lost or very weak, the faith that Jesus posed as a condition of doing miracles, healing and forgiveness.
for all, not to fall into spiritual blindness important is prayer, dialogue with God, get naked before Him, knowing that God knows us fully, meet for help, thank, praise, worship.
We all know that faith is a gift from God we receive in baptism: it is not enough, we must know it because knowing it grow and above all give the answers that God expects from us, and will require a persistently especially at times when we feel far from God, unwilling or because they feel his presence. God is often silent, can wait, be patient, loves us, wants to save us but without us.
Exit spiritual blindness is transformation: now we see, we understand, we understand, we are born again: "Before I was blind, now I see "(John 9.25) testified to the blind man healed by Jesus
From darkness to light, from light to witness: " the man said to them, "It is this surprising: that you do not know where he is, but I garden Additional eyes. We know that God does not hear sinners, but that if one honors God and does His will, He hears him. From time immemorial, has never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could not say anything " (John 9.30-33).
often ask ourselves: Who is God for me?
, I really met God?
As alive?
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