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Praise to the One who Opens Blind Eyes: Psalm 146

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Praise to the One who Opens Blind Eyes Psalm 146 Jesus saw the man who could not see him. BSF Lesson 13 In the Scriptures, there are two types of blindness: physical blindness and spiritual blindness. Both forms of blindness are a result of the fall. Now that sin and its curse have entered our world, our physical bodies bear the evidence of mortality. Our bodies, designed by our magnificent Creator, no longer function wholly and completely. Even more devastating is our spiritual blindness. When Adam sinned against God, all mankind fell with him in his first sin. He represented the whole human race, and because of his sin, mankind was plunged into spiritual darkness, spiritual blindness. And in our blindness, we don’t even know we’re alienated from God.  In John 9, we read the story of the man who was born blind. But Jesus found him and gave him his sight. This is the story of every believer. We are born blind. The sin nature we are born with blinds us to our separation from God and...