Blind Spots
I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten…
Joel 2:25
Despite growing up in a secular home, Lee and Lynn managed
to find the love of Jesus Christ. But as siblings do, each adopted parental
traits and characteristics; among them a few that would have been better left
to past generations.
Time passed and each married, having families of their own. One
lived a blue collar lifestyle while the other owned and worked a small business.
Both grew in the knowledge and wisdom of God. And in both were seeds; seeds of
love, and seeds of familial apathy; the latter a hand-me-down from the prior generation.
A generation that had fostered sibling apathy and indifference for reasons they
couldn’t recall, nor cared to discover. And from this fertile soil grew a
bitter root that was unsatisfied with stealing just one generation of love and
relationship.
Lee and Lynn’s pride became a tool in the hands of an enemy
so cunning and shrewd that they never saw it coming. One moment in time, no one
really remembered, became the wedge that was now planted firmly between them. Both
were sure that they had gone the extra mile to reconcile. Neither saw their
blind spot. For the walls that had been erected stood tall, strong, and impenetrable;
neither realized that what they despised in the other was a barrier of their
own making.
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We can become blinded by a need for vindication. And the
enemy knows it. He also knows how to manipulate us without our knowledge or
conscious permission…until it feels like it’s too late. Stubbornness and pride
have ended more relationships than fistfights or legal matters.
Satan began his attack on God’s family in the Garden…he will
not relent until he has destroyed every relationship he can. Yet there is no
battle that is one-sided, and no healing will be promoted when only one party
seeks resolution; especially when pride remains in the other. And the locusts
continue their feast.
So I ask: Is there anything so valuable, other than the love
of Jesus, that we would continue fighting while lose everything meaningful in
the process?
Prayer
“Healer of
relationships and families, show me if there are any blind spots in my life.
Restore what the locusts have eaten. In Jesus’ Name, amen.”
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