There is amazing technology developed for those who are red-green colorblind. Red-green colorblindness is the most common form with about five percent of the population having this genetic condition. People who have this condition do see color, but not like those without the condition. One person described the leaves on the trees as always being dull brown and dead looking.
The technology is glasses that allow the vibrant colors to be seen. I was reminded of this when I watched another video of a young boy who was color-blind. He received a set of these new glasses while outside among the trees and plants and flowers. He was so overwhelmed with emotion that he cried when he saw what nature actually looked like and what he had been missing all along.
To him God’s creation was dull brown and dead looking, he could not see the beauty that surrounded him. A genetic condition had blinded him to color. Only when his vision was enhanced did he see the way God intended.
I thought about our spiritual vision, about those whose spiritual eyes have been blinded by the god of this world so that they cannot see God the way He intends. The world teaches that we have evolved as an accident of nature – so we have no purpose. Some teach there is no God, no heaven, no hell – so we have no future, no need to be accountable for any thought or action. It isn’t until we come to Christ that our ‘spiritual-genetic condition’ is enhanced, and we see life the way God intended, full of purpose and having a glorious future.
2 Corinthians 4:6: For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. [NKJV]
