Blind Eye

Blind Eye

Acts 18: 17

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and best him before the judgement seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.

Do we turn a blind eye to injustice? Do I? I sat reading in Acts about the spread of the Good News and I read this passage. The background is that Paul is brought before Gallio, the proconsul of Achaia because the Jews have risen up against him, again.  As I read the last verse, I couldn’t help but think of the judged. The sinner whose sin shows outward or the person who is judged for the skin our Savior designed for them. Think about that, our Savior designed each one of us.


Admittedly, I don’t understand all the things I see but I do know it’s not up to me to understand. My only purpose is to love unconditionally in the way my Savior loved me. To spread the gospel with love and to speak when the Holy Spirit gives me guidance. Reading through Acts I learn that the apostles spoke when the Holy Spirit gave them guidance, not when they witnessed something they didn't like. They also did not address what they saw as sin with the unsaved. They just taught the Good News.

I want to just love people today. I want to show the love of Christ without judgement. This is my prayer today for myself that I will see past the differences between myself and others and learn to love first, speak only when the Holy Spirit gives me guidance, and not to turn a blind eye when I see injustice.


Can we rise above the hate, the discrimination, the fear and give love chance?




Father God, as we navigate this new normal, I praise you for dinner with my whole family, for movie nights, yard work complete, home projects done and more time with you. For all the things our busy lives left neglected, now resurrected. For the love our neighbors show as they work tirelessly to provide for those in need. I pray you calm the storm Lord. Be with the business owners, the unemployed head of household, the struggling college student, the teacher that learns to teach in empty classrooms, the parent working full time and taking care of kids, the healthcare worker, the trucker, the essentials worker that prays they don’t bring this virus home, the tired care-taker and for any I have not listed, I pray Lord, your hand and mercy be upon them. Amen