Have Sin Blinded You to All That is Beautiful?

To live in the darkness of sin is to be blind to the beauty of God’s creation. Sin blurs the true, good and beautiful. We cannot see and appreciate the true, good and beautiful in creation because we are obsessed in abusing creation. A lustful man cannot see the beauty of a woman for he only sees her body, only her body. He has stripped her and her body of any sacredness and dignity. Her body becomes merely an object of his lustful and perverse desires. A greedy man cannot appreciate what he has for he has already set his eyes on his next object of desire.

Sin also blinds us because it stops us from seeing others. We only see others in relation of their use to ourselves. When a lustful man sees a woman he thinks “I want to use her.” A greedy man sees others as a means to his goals.

With sin there is only “I” there are no “others”.

“I am the light of the world.” says Jesus. Only in His light can we see the true, good and beautiful in creation and in people. In His light and by His light creation finds meaning. In Christ we see not only the beauty of a person, but his value, his worth. Man is worth dying for. And that is what God did.

We can only see our beauty in light of God, for He is the only and true source of our dignity. Take God out of the equation, we all become commodities to each other.

How long we live in the darkness of sin? How much more misery before we repent and turn our back from our sins? How much wretchedness will we endure before we walk toward the light of the Son?

Jesus is waiting for us.

He wants to heal our blindness.

Step out of the darkness and into His own marvelous light.

Written by Daxx Bondoc