The Most Dangerous Kind of Blindness: Eyes Wide Shut?

 

You don’t have to be blind to stop seeing.

Your eyes are miraculous. They pull in light, depth, movement, and shape, translating it all into meaning in less than a second. Each eye has over two million working parts. They send signals through the optic nerve at over 260 mph. Vision is one of the most complex, indispensable senses we have.

But sometimes, even with eyes wide open, we’re in the dark.

Living Without Sight

Go blind for a day, and everything changes. You bump into furniture you’ve walked past for years. You hesitate. You grope for the edges of familiarity. What was once automatic—tying shoes, pouring coffee, recognizing a face—suddenly demands focus and trust.

Blindness isn’t just the absence of sight. It’s disorientation. It’s dependence. It forces you to listen harder, think slower, and reach with more care.

But there’s another blindness—one that doesn’t slow you down. In fact, it lets you keep scrolling, watching, consuming—eyes wide open, soul fast asleep.

Vision vs. Perception

Jesus said: “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” (Matthew 6:22)

The eye doesn’t just receive—it influences. What you fixate on shapes what you become. The lamp that’s meant to guide can be dimmed. Or worse, pointed at the wrong thing.

There’s a kind of seeing that numbs the soul. A kind of vision that fills the mind with everything except truth. You can have high-def sight and still walk in spiritual darkness.

What’s Getting In?

Proverbs 4:23 warns: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” But guarding your heart means watching what you let through your eyes.

Your eyes are entry points. They aren’t neutral. What you watch, what you chase, what you obsess over—they shape your inner life.

Ask yourself:

What have I been seeing so often that I’ve stopped noticing it’s changing me?
Am I really awake—or just living eyes wide shut?

Wake Up the Eyes of the Soul

Jesus restored sight to the physically blind—but He also opened the eyes of those who thought they could see. He came to wake up the spiritually drowsy, the overstimulated, the self-reliant.

The most dangerous kind of blindness? Thinking you’re fully awake when your soul’s running on autopilot.

So if your eyes are open, look again.

And ask for the light that reveals what really matters.

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