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From the Pastor

Spritual Blindspots

Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) was a seventeenth century French physicist and priest. The work of Mariotte is relevant every day to the petro-chemical industry in our area. He is best known for his collaborative work with the Englishman Robert Boyle in the formulation or establishment of Boyle’s Law. This chemical principle declares that for a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional (if one increases, the other decreases).

 

Mariotte is famous for one other thing. In 1660 he identified the phenomenon in the human eye (and all vertebrates) that we call the “physiological blind spot.” He used it to entertain people at the king’s court in Paris by making a coin disappear right in front of their eyes. The blind spot is the area on the retina where the optic nerve exits the eye on its way to enter the brain. This one spot does not contain photo receptors that respond to light; therefore, any image that falls on this spot will NOT be seen. Every person possesses a blind spot, technically a scotoma.

 

In his earthly ministry Jesus accused his opponents of being “blind” persons who were attempting to lead other “blind” persons (Matt. 15:14). Elsewhere Jesus identified the source of that blindness. He asserted that we are blind to our own faults and shortcomings while quick to determine the spiritual failures of other people because we have a restricted vision (Luke 6:41-42) or “blind spots.”

 

I think that Jesus is right. Followers of Jesus tend to have “spiritual” blind spots. Let me tell you what I mean by that. I am convinced that we are selective in the teachings of Jesus as we apply them to our lives. We love some of his emphases, while we have a tendency to neglect or disregard others. In short, we have dimensions, decisions, and actions of our lives that are not fully formed by the clear teachings of Scripture. In other words, we cannot or will not see some things through the revealed light or truth taught by God’s Son.

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Dr. Ron Lyles

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