The Strange Thing You Might Be Blind To

I bless you to be not blind

To the blindness of the world.

Jesus wept over the city

That would kill Him

Because He knew the eyes

Of the lost cannot see.

“And when he drew near and

Saw the city, he wept over it, saying,

‘Would that you, even you, had known

On this day the things that make for peace!

But now they are hidden from your eyes.’” (Luke 19:41–42, ESV)

It is senseless to fume

Against a blind man for stumbling

In an unfamiliar room.

It is silly for a teacher

To scold her third-grade math students

For their inability to do calculus.

The Savior didn’t excuse the sin

Of His betrayers and executioners—

But He understood it

Because He saw that they couldn’t see.

When you see how little

People can see apart from Christ

It makes you want to shine a little more light

For them—light for those stumbling in darkness.