Blind, What do you Mean Blind?

Turn a blind eye - To knowingly refuse to acknowledge something which you know to be real.

Blind as a bat - completely blind

Up a blind alley - at a dead end

The blind leading the blind - a situation where people who don't know how to do something try to teach other people.

In the country of the blind, a one eyed man is king - A person who is not particularly capable can attain a powerful position if the people around him or her are even less capable.

Like a blind dog in a meat market - out of control

Love is blind - If you love someone, you cannot see any faults in that person

Men are blind in their own cause - If you believe in something very fervently, you will not recognize the flaws or dangers in what you believe.

He's got a nose like a blind carpenter's thumb – This one speaks for itself!

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse - You cannot get people to take a hint if they are determined not to.

 There's none so blind as those who will not see - You cannot make someone pay attention to something that he or she does not want to notice. 

 At the end of John 8 it says, “They picked up stones to throw at Him.”  The leaders had enough of this plain talk of Jesus that they did not understand.  He tells them in chapter 8 that the reason they don’t understand Him is because He and they have different fathers.  This point is illustrated in chapter 9 when a man who has no physical sight is given both physical and spiritual eyes, while those whose physical eye sight is perfect, have no eyes to see who Jesus is. 

 How many times did you look at Jesus and not see Him?  How many times did you listen to a message about Him, but never heard it?  How many times did someone show you the works of Christ, but you never saw them for what they were?  Just because we have perfect eye sight does not guarantee that we are able to see Jesus or recognize actions done by believers as demonstrations of His love.  The Jewish leaders of John 8 and 9 had seen the miracles, but they wanted more proof because they could not bring themselves to admit that what they had seen was from God. 

 Have your eyes been opened to the things of Christ or are you one of those who is so blind that you will deny the evidence of Christ plainly before you