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.