God worked through the blindfolds

A blindfold.

Who would have thought that this opaque material benefited a group of youths on a Saturday night. Thank God!

Yesterday when I was with them, I suddenly thought of Paul (or rather Saul). He was blinded too but it was because he saw the brilliance of the light of God. His sight was received after Ananias healed him.

Interestingly, he was the one who wrote this prayer in Ephesians chapter 1.

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, ¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe."

The thing about being blind is paradoxical. We can be blind but not blind, not blind but blind. I do not rule out the possibility that the blind (even for a moment) can see more than those who permanently have sight since the living example was Paul.

Let us pray with Paul that God will open the eyes of all of our hearts, that we may see and (truly) know Him and love all of Him and love all the truth he has for us, including the paradoxes. =)