Day 48 - Blind Spots
📖Daily Reading
1 Samuel 2
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📝 Reflection
1 Samuel 2: 25, 29
“If Someone sins against another person, God can mediate for the guilty party. But if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede?” But Eli’s sons wouldn’t listen to their fathers, for the Lord was already planning to put them to death.
“So why do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings? Why do you give your sons more honor than you give me - for you and they have become fat from the best offerings of my people Israel!”
Oh Boy, trouble in the Tabernacle! The first verse above is Eli’s warnings to his sons who were doing lots of bad things and had no respect for the Lord. Typical of modern preachers kids! (🙋♀️yep yours truly). The second verse is a warning that Eli himself is receiving from a messenger of the Lord. Can you see that Eli definitely was guilty of having blindspots when it came to his sons? I can so relate! The fact that Eli did not give them consequences other than a warning meant that he was giving them permission to misbehave and disrespect the Lord and himself! When you see your parents live by double standards or not give you consequences, the immature children shrug their shoulders and say to themselves - ‘party on dude!”. We teach others by our actions not our words.
As I referenced above my earthly father was a preacher for a time. He should not have been! He was not called to it, it was a job and a paycheck, and he did a lot of things at home that contradicted what he was saying from the pulpit. It also gave me permission as an immature teen to do a lot of things that I knew where not so good, but they were fun to me at the time. That is all I cared about! No doubt Eli loved his sons as any father does and he probably was a much better preacher than my father and probably believed in the Lord and was serving him well in his own conduct and interactions with people and certainly by raising Samuel BUT by allowing his sons to behave the way they were in their roles as priests he was doing exactly what he was accusing his sons of doing, he was sinning again the Lord.
So at the end of the day does it really matter if you live some of your life well but you are willfully blind in other areas, or you think one things justifies another? I have been and AM so guilty of this. This really convicted me this morning as a mom and as a proclaimed Christ follower. Do I have willful blindspots? Do you?
This is a cautionary tale for sure. My own father died as a consequences of his own willful blindspots and not so blindspots at the age of 56 from drinking too much. I have been very sad and angry and mixed up about my relationship with him. I lived the first 30 years of my life willfully blind to the church and God, choosing a YOLO (you only live once) chasing pleasure and happiness lifestyle!
In my immaturity and watching my father, I thought God caused problems for people! Then I became a mom…and slowly baby step by baby step God has been revealing to me what true love is, what He truly is and how a life dependent on Him is where true Joy and peace can be found. At 40 I began to look at my own relationship with alcohol and how it was affecting me, at about 45 I started to think about what I was teaching my kids by my actions. I didn’t like what I was seeing in the mirror! So I decided to change, the bucks stops with me. An unhealthy relationship with life and using alcohol as a solution taken many lives on both sides of my family. I know my family is not unusual in this way sadly! By God’s amazing grace He is helping me. He can help you too!
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How have you been willfully blind in your life? What are you teaching other by your actions? Do you teach by the 'do as I say, not as I do?' method? We don't just teach others by our misalignment of words and actions, we teach ourselves too! What are you teaching yourself? Are you sending mixed messages?
📖Tomorrows Reading
1 Samuel 3-4
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