Isn't It Amazing How Sin Blinds?

# 286 - Today's Living Word comes from Mark 3:6, “Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.”

With the words of Jesus, “is it lawful on the Sabbath to save life or kill,” still ringing in their ears, the Pharisees immediately plot with the Herodians to destroy Jesus!

Isn't it amazing how sin blinds? How do you react when sin is pointed out in your life? Do you allow the Word of God to penetrate your heart to the point where you desire to change your thinking, (repent) or do you seek to remove those convicting words from your ears?

Just listen to these Pharisees! Using the pretense of Jesus violating the Sabbath, they IMMEDIATELY plot ways to destroy Him. Who does this Guy think He is, to come in here and telling us to change the ways we have come to accept as biblical?

And because these people have come to accept the unbiblical as biblical, they don't even flinch at the thought of destroying someone who gets in their way. Doesn't thou shalt not kill hold any water with these people?

Not anymore, because they have accepted unbiblical practices for years. This should be a huge warning for the church today, for we too have come to accept that which is unbiblical, setting us up for the same spiritual blindness and hardening of the heart that these Pharisees were experiencing.

Oh God, give us hearts that are eager to receive Your correction from our wayward ways and let the blessings of Your forgiveness restore our souls.

Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

I'm Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word.