Hidden and Blind
Author’s Note: One of the techniques I was taught as I was learning to understanding God’s Word was to project myself into the image and think about how the main characters would think and feel. This poem is an attempt to try to align with how Christ sees the world. I know I won’t ever get it right this side of eternity, but I still feel the drive to try.
You did not see Me, so why should I see you?
You claim to hide with Me, yet I don’t see you looking at Me.
I hid behind that homeless man, the one you looked away from and studied the sidewalk instead of My/his pain.
I hid behind the kids of that single mom, the ones who can’t see My/their mom because she lost her job and has taken one too many part-time jobs to try to not lose everything.
I hid behind that pregnant teen, the one you didn’t see crying because she didn’t want to kill My/her baby and she didn’t have the help she needed.
I hid behind that old lady, the one you put in a nursing home and refused to come visit because you didn’t like how broken My/her aging mind had gotten.
I hid behind that lonely spouse, waiting for My/his life partner to let go of the project you assigned with a too-tight deadline and come home for an anniversary dinner.
I hid behind that boy, the one you laughed at when he dressed and acted weird when he couldn’t understand life because My/his brain was broken.
I hid behind that girl’s body as the life slowly seeped out; you didn’t see how your words sliced My/her heart that was already broken from an abusive step-father.
I hid behind those kids, the ones you knew were leaving town for that secluded spot; you didn’t see Me/them as important enough to stop from starting down the path of addiction during a secret late night party.
You did not seek for Me in My people who are too hurt to serve Me. You did not see Me because you blinded yourself to My ways and My will and My word. You blindly lead the blind, even when the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, and the mute speak.
I see your lack of love for Me and Mine. I see you as wretched, poor, and pitiful. I will blind Myself to your pain until you hide your naked souls in the splendor of My Righteousness and unblind your eyes with the balm of My Spirit.
Oh, that you would open your eyes and see, for I don’t want to be sighted for you when I am seated on my throne of judgment.
Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. — Colossians 3:2–3, Holman Christian Standard Bible
Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea, for these are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation: I know all that you do, and I know that you are neither frozen in apathy nor fervent with passion. How I wish you were either one or the other! But because you are neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I am about to spit you from my mouth. For you claim, “I’m rich and getting richer — I don’t need a thing.” Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren, and naked! So I counsel you to purchase gold perfected by fire, so that you can be truly rich. Purchase a white garment to cover and clothe your shameful Adam-nakedness. Purchase eye salve to be placed over your eyes so that you can truly see. All those I dearly love I unmask and train. So repent and be eager to pursue what is right. — Revelation 3:14–19, The Passion Translation
But the spiritual man [the spiritually mature Christian] judges all things [questions, examines and applies what the Holy Spirit reveals], yet is himself judged by no one [the unbeliever cannot judge and understand the believer’s spiritual nature]. For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes]. — 1 Corinthians 2:15–17, Amplified Bible
