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pastor, author and teacher David Platt.

Blind spots. We all have them.

Areas of our lives where we're deceived and we don't know it.

You know when you're driving you look in the mirror seems like it's fine to change lanes. Unbeknownst to you there is a car right next to you in your blind spot

So when you start to change lanes they honk and you jerk back over into your lane and you think how did I miss something so obvious something easy to see in hindsight

something easy to see in hindsight yet easy to miss in the prison.

And other people can usually see

blind spots in our lives more easily than we can. We need other people to point

them out. But even then, something in us still doesn't want to see them.

Sometimes that which is so obvious, we don't want to admit even exists,

until it's too late.

And this happens in our faith.

Just think of the classic glaring blind spot of American Christian history, slavery.

It seems unthinkable to us today.

How could so many Christians who supposedly believe the gospel

so easily rationalize subjecting slaves to deplorable conditions outside their homes.

And churchgoers worshiping God every Sunday reading the Bible all week long, all while treating men and women and children like property to be used and abused.

And they actually thought they were generous to give their slaves an extra chicken at Christmas.

Is that not frightening?

Church involvement, regular worship, even study of the Bible, do not prevent blindness in us.

Part of our sinful nature still sees what we want to see and ignores what we want to ignore it, especially when it's commonplace

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