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Beware of Self-Induced Spiritual Blindness
Peter goes on to describe the condition of those who are Christ’s followers as becoming blinded because of not walking in the sanctifying power of Christ.
2 Peter 1:8-9 (NKJV) For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
When I preach overseas in third-world places, I’m always amazed at how little they have. In places like rural Russia, they’ll have a church service that goes from eight in the morning to noon, have a short lunch, and then they’ll ask me to preach again. Even if I don’t have anything else prepared, they’re willing to hear the same message over again because they have nothing else going on. They have nothing else going on in life but God.
But when you’re rich and increased in goods, you become like Laodicea. Laodicea had so much going on, they’d been so overexposed to the distractions of having too much stuff, that they had become spiritually blind. Like those creatures that live for years in caves with no exposure to sunlight, Laodicea had gone for so long without proper exposure to the Light of God’s Word that they had become blind.