Could it be us?

We are amazed at the hard-heartedness of the Pharisees when they heard Christ's teachings. 'We would never be like that! What hypocrites they were, teaching one thing and practicing another, using their religion to protect their own interests! No wonder Christ said, Listen to their teachings but don't do what they do!'

What if the teaching of Christ makes us blinder than we were before, deafer, more unfeeling? What if knowing Him makes us feel superior to those who don't? What if we feel privileged to 'plunder the Egyptians' and claim for ourselves what we deny them? What if we no longer can tell our right hand from our left?

'In Your Light we see the light,' chants the psalmist, but what if our eye is not single? What if our whole body is full of darkness? As the Lord says, 'What darkness that will be!' For the Light has come, 'the people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned' (Isaiah 9:2).

And who is that people? Could it be us?