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It's so easy to look back on previous generations and recognize the things they were completely wrong about. With the benefit of hindsight, it's so easy to judge them -- they simply didn't know what they didn't know. I always wonder -- what will be the things that people look back on us in 100 years and laugh at how foolish we were? We're at the pinnacle of knowledge right now, but it's hard to admit that there are things we simply don't know that will be common knowledge in 100 years. There was a time before the wheel, right? Remember, there was a time when doctors never washed their hands and people thought the best thing to do when someone was sick was to bleed them. We take all these things for granted... but at one point, that was future knowledge and would've seemed crazy to do otherwise. We don't know what we don't know.
Jesus is trying to help people lift their eyes from what they know and see true freedom. He's showing it to them, using words and miracles, but it's so very hard for us to see anything different than what we currently know. It was hard for the Jews, too. They probably couldn't see a lot of their sin -- they were blind to it.
So what sins are we blind to? What would Jesus point to in our lives regarding things we need to stop doing, and what things would he tell us to start doing? It takes time to truly reflect, to listen. It's not easy... but when we pray, when we still ourselves, then we can start to wonder what the Father has to say to us, that we might learn, and that learning, we might be transformed, drawn closer to God and given a glimpse of the true freedom that we find in Christ.
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