Joe and I are at Pastor’s School at beautiful Epworth by the Sea. Last night after worship we took our nighttime walk down Arthur J. Moore drive through a beautiful residential section. It was dark but the road was straight and flat and there were occasional lights. We stopped in front of one home to admire a pair of gaslight sconces flanking one driveway entrance. They were unusual because the flames were three pronged with the center flame higher than the outside ones. After a minute we resumed our walk but when we did I noticed that I really couldn’t see the road ahead. I had been blinded by the light. I thought, “Surely there’s a devotion in this” and right away I reflected back on the Clergy Sexual Ethics workshop I had been in earlier. We heard how sadly people and clergy aren’t immune, become blinded by the sexual attractiveness of another person and make terrible choices. What God created as life giving becomes something that causes death of the spirit and subsequently death of a ministry. There are many things that can glow so brightly in our lives that they blind us to the Way of Christ. Then I thought of Paul who was on a pathway of death and destruction until he was blinded by the light of Christ. Maybe we could posit this: Blinded by sin, blinded to Christ; blinded by Christ; blinded to sin. Upon what shall you set your sights today?
Precious Lord, Take my hand; lead me on the path of light and life today. We ask this in the name of the true Light of the World. Amen.
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