Can you hear, see, and feel?

Today, I was finishing up Acts. The verses that caught my attention today can be found in Acts 28: 26 & 27. In this passage, Paul is quoting the prophet Isaiah. It talks about people who hear, but do not understand, see, but do not perceive, and whose hearts are hardened. Because of this, the people don't get it, and therefore, they cannot be healed by God. To think that people can hear, see, and feel the Truth of God, of Jesus, but not really get it is sad and scary. That sounds so much like the world today. No one really gets it anymore. They have turned their backs on all things right, true and moral. It's easy for even Christians to loose their way when we are bombarded by all these humanistic beliefs and values. It becomes so easy to justify our sins in today's world. And it seems the more we justify our sins, the more deaf and blind we become, the harder our hearts become. That just leaves us open to all sorts of peril and hurt. Then we scratch our heads wondering what went wrong.

I hope and desperately pray that I will always hear and see the Truth, and that my heart will not become impenetrable to the Word of God and the wisdom and blessings of Truth that it holds. Frankly, that would be Hell on Earth, that is, being separated from the love of God.

Maybe it is only in our brokenness we can come to Him and see and hear, and finally believe. Maybe that is what Matthew 5 is really all about. Coming to the end of ourselves is the only way we can have a beginning with God. It seems we have to be stripped down and exposed so that we finally stop getting distracted by everything. Then we can finally see and hear, and because our hearts are beaten to a bloody pulp, the Truth of Jesus Christ can finally get through those wounds. That is when we find healing.