blind spots

Excerpted from Frank Viola:
The Father has one goal. To conform us into the image of Jesus. But all of us have parts of our personality that are unlike Christ. Often we are blinded to these parts of us. The blindness is so thick that we can "hear" a rebuke on one level, but completely turn a deaf ear on all the levels that really count. Then one day God takes us by storm and removes the blinders. The Lord pulls back the curtain and shows you, with dramatic clarity, that ugly thing to which you've been blind. This revelation crushes you. The remorse is painful.


Yet it doesn't end there. God turns up the temperature to try you. He wants to gain your entire soul. He is breaking you with intense pressure. There is only one thing to do: SURRENDER. Don't complain. Don't fight. Don't try to maneuver yourself out of it. Don't dwell on worst-case scenarios. Don't fear. Just surrender fully and completely to God. And let Him do His deeper work in your life. The Father's objective is to make you more like Christ, especially in those areas where you've been wearing a blindfold for so long.