This isn’t a youth group activity …

Spend any time with a church youth group and someone will wind up with a blindfold on.

As leaders try illustrating the concept of living by faith and not by sight, one of the most common activities is blindfolding someone and guiding them through an obstacle course by voice commands. It’s interesting how halting the blindfolded person walks. Even though they have someone giving them clear directions with the promise not to mislead them, the person wearing the blindfold usually waves their hands around, groping and feeling for objects, and taking baby steps.

It shows just how much faith they have in the one giving them instructions!

Christians often walk that way when listening to the Lord. We’re halting in our step, unsure if it’s really safe to go forward.

But Jesus never asked us to put on a blindfold. Instead, He has revealed a tremendous amount to us in the Bible, including a track record of trust unequaled by anyone; He has proven Himself trustworthy above all else! And the Holy Spirit resides in us, providing perfect direction for every step, if only we would heed His voice.

So then, how do you walk? Is your faith tied to your sight, or to what Jesus says?

“For we live by believing [faith] and not by seeing,” 2 Corinthians 5:7.

Scotty