They Cannot Know

They do not know nor understand;
For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see,
And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.  Isaiah 44:18

Throughout the world it happens: the Bible, the word of our Lord, gets blamed for some perceived symptom of fallen humans living on a cursed earth. We rush to the defense of the Word of our Lord, and ask them what seems to be the problem. And then comes the statement; that one, the one we know immediately is not correct. Staggered, we open the Word to read the passages and be sure, but there it is, they got it wrong and are using that reason to blame the Bible for the problem as they see it. One might be tempted to argue with them, and some apologists have done so throughout the years, but the chances of their understanding are not good until the Lord acts. 

We read in our verse for today that some have a reason for their strange interpretation of the Bible. With shut eyes and heart, they cannot see or understand until the Lord opens those closed organs of theirs. What by the Lord's mercy seems obvious to us, is closed to those who walk the earth with shut up eyes and heart. No need for us to gripe and moan about them, use the words instead for prayers of mercy and understanding; that they might one day soon see and understand the mercy, grace, and love of the Word. And then let us thank the Lord for sight and understanding in the Word when we brought nothing particularly deserving of such a great gift ourselves!

In the love of Christ,

Bucky