Blindspots

A common tendency is to minimize our sin by coming up with alternate names for our sin. One such phrase is “blindspots.” Now, this phrase can be used in a useful way. None of us are all-knowing, so there will be things we’re unaware of.

But if you zero in on its meaning as a way to put daylight between you and your sin then you’ll see the folly of slapping that phrase over your sin. Sin is never a matter of lack of education or awareness. This would be to adopt a view of evil that is foreign to the Bible. The lusts of our hearts lead us into our various sins. More info doesn’t suddenly strip temptation of its magnetic draw.

Describing your sin as a blindspot makes it sound like if you had only known such-and-such was evil you never would have done it. But if we take a hard look at our motives we know that we always sin because that’s what we actually wanted.

Resisting sin, then, isn’t found in degrees or courses. Don’t pretend that if only you knew more that you’d sin less. This means that resisting sin is found elsewhere. And indeed it’s found in the light of Christ. Paul says, “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. (Eph 5:8).” Elsewhere he makes a similar exhortation “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light (Rom. 13:12).”

Walking in Christ is walking in the daylight. The glory of walking with Christ is that you can now see clearly how horrific and foolish sin is, and–by the Spirit–resist temptation’s allure.