God’s people spiritually blind and deaf

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not” Jeremiah 5:21.

It is one thing to understand why those in the world act as they do. After all, we expect the dark to be ─ well, dark! We get that a veil lies over things that are spiritually discerned, “but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed” (2 Corinthians 3:16).

Our job, then, is to get as many in the world to turn to the Lord.

But what about God’s people, who should know better, who have had ample opportunity to hear God’s Word but refuse to repent, whose eyes and ears are spiritually blind and deaf? Jesus, upon hearing that the man with restored sight had been cast out of the synagogue, found and told him,

“For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind” (John 9:39).

In Jeremiah’s day, God’s people surrounded themselves with false prophets and priests who would tell them lies, and “my people love to have it so,” but the question is asked, “but what will you do when the end comes?”

About this spiritual blindness and deafness, Isaiah says it’s lest they understand and turn so that God would heal them.