Isaiah 35:5 – “Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.”

As I read, prayed, and pondered the Word of God today, I was challenged by a thought almost unrelated to what I was reading.  The challenging thought – “Don’t let your blinders blind you to your true purpose.”

My blinders are my blinders, and sometimes the blinders only let me see something, not so I can fix it or right the wrong in my activism, but so I can pray.   If God gives you a blinder and that becomes a commission, then pursue it with your all.  The warning was to me personally not to lose focus on my whole assignment and allow the blinders to distract me from my whole purpose.

Isaiah 48:10 leaped off the page at me.  God’s refining process includes the furnace of affliction.  Our focus and commitment are either destroyed or strengthened in times of trial.  If we are refined in it, we grow stronger.

Isaiah 50:4-5 gripped my heart in a prayer.   Make it so in me, Lord.   Give me the tongue of a disciple so that I can sustain the weary with one word. Awaken my ear to listen, open my ears to hear.

If I listen and hear and out of that have the tongue of a disciple, the blinders won’t blind me.   One word from God changes everything!  A timely word is like a miracle medicine; it heals, inspires, and liberates.

Sometimes, we need blinders to move us to prayer and mistake the call to prayer as a mandate to activism.  Whatever God has put in your heart, do it!   I am in no way suggesting that any inspiration to act is a blinder.  The directive to me was to not lose sight of the big picture and the whole purpose.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with everything you have and are!  Just be sure that you are not blinded by the blinder.  Let the blinder inspire you rather than control you.

LORD, help us not to be blinded by our blinders but to see with the eyes of the Holy Spirit!