“Please! Mom said nobody can help me. There’s no use trying. She was blind, and so were my older sister and brother. We’re all the same; it’s hereditary. The doctor told them so.”
“But, Jean, suppose it’s not that at all. Shouldn’t we just check into it?”
“Mr. Baxter! Do you know anything? I’ve been blind for eighteen years now. All my old glasses are useless now. Can’t you understand? We’re all like this in my family.”
So on she went in her firmly held conclusions. Her vision had failed over a period of thirty-nine years, but she knew the whole time that nothing could be done. But she was wrong. She wasn’t just like dear mom. She could have been helped.
Mr. Baxter thought, “Why can’t we look into this?”
He phoned the first doctor: “My blind wife needs an appointment.”
“No, I’m sorry. We can’t help blind people here.”
“Okay, thanks anyway.”
He tried the next number. Same story. Three more times it happened. Finally he changed tactics. “Can I just make an appointment for my dear wife?”
“Why, of course. How about next Tuesday?”
And that’s when Jean learned that her conclusions, opinions and self-efforts were quite wrong. Sadly wrong.
In late 1999, in a hospital in Surrey, England, Mrs. Jean Baxter had both cataracts removed. Later she marveled at her new world. “I can see everything now! The colors are so vivid! I’m fascinated!”
Yes, of course dear old mom said so. Maybe your trusted friend even knows for sure about spiritual matters. But have you ever read the New Testament yourself? Do you know what Jesus actually said?
Did He really say there are two roads, one going to life and the other to destruction? Do you know for sure which road you are on? What did Jesus say?
Do you have a Bible? Find it. Dust it off. Open it up to Matt. 7. Sit down and read carefully verses 13-14.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth until life, and few there be that find it.”
Not so hard to understand after all, is it? Let it challenge your certain opinions.
Eternity is far too long to be wrong!