Luke 6, 39-42: Jesus first speaks of the blind leading the blind.

Strong emphasis on the character of his followers. The virtues that he wants you and I to acquire. These are a series of sayings or aphorisms that are not merely what you are meant to do, but the kind of man or woman you're meant to become.

The issue is one of character and commitments issuing forth in action. Hence it is so essential for us to destroy even the minimal possibility of hypocrisy. We’d be like the blind leading the blind. The first vision we need is the nature of our own wretchedness. Our dominant defects. Those character flaws. Maybe we haven’t even been fighting against them because we haven’t even considered them.

In what way am I truly blind?

Music: Handel Opera Rinaldo, aria “Lascia ch’io pianga”, arranged for guitar by Bert Alink.

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Thumbnail: The blind leading the blind, by Dutch painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1568