“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, (Luke 4:18)

Crowning the Messianic Encounter Conference week with an all-night service, the Host Pastor Emmanuel Kwesi Acquah speaking on an extract from the text above “recovery of sight for the blind” said that there are different dimensions of blindness.

• The physical blindness

He explained physical blindness to be as a result of people being born blind or might be blind due to an accident that affects the eye or other reasons. He gave an example pertaining to the severity of physical blindness.

Illustrating the joy of recovery of site, he referred to a report of a 24 year old young man who looking through a train’s window shouted Dad look ‘ The trees are going behind; they are moving very fast” and also said ‘The clouds are moving with us”. Some passengers begun to confront his father about his son’s behaviour and need for medical attention suggesting he had a mental challenge, but his father smiled in response saying that they are just from a seeing a doctor but not a Psychiatrist and that his ‘son was blind from birth. He got his sight today for the very first time, his behaviour may seem stupid to you, its more than a miracle to me”

Ps Acquah intimated that physical blindness is very challenging but there is another level of blindness that is much more severe i.e. the blindness that affects the eye of our understanding.

• The blindness that affects the understanding of our eyes.

He said that this form of blindness is very severe because if you are blind in your understanding, then, you cannot see or recognize the move of God. The bible says that when the hour of the Lord’s visitation came, the Jews could not see. I pray that as you read this text may the eyes of your understanding be opened so that you will not miss your opportunity.

He further exclaimed that whenever an individual encounters the Messiah his/her eyes are opened to see God and his ways.

There are so many decisions we make in life every day. Decisions about marriage, choice of work, place of living which is not embedded in the word of God but because the Holy Spirit is in us we need to know the mind of God about our decisions. And if the Messiah is full of us, we might not hear or see anything sometimes, but we will just know what to do because God has opened the eyes of our understanding. And due to this, the plans we make become synonymous to the plans of God.

As you read this text may the eyes of your understanding be opened in the name of Jesus Christ.