Many years ago, I came across a newspaper report that featured an eye doctor. He conducted a research on several commercial bike riders and taxi drivers. To his chagrin, his findings revealed that 40% to 46% of those interviewed had vision impairments in one form or the other. They were not seeing well, so they had no business being on the road. Yet, they assumed responsibility for the safety of commuters.

For the sake of our sanity and eternity, it is good to ask questions.

To say the least, that was a dangerous scenario. Perhaps, the other thing more dangerous is having people with spiritually impaired vision lead others. This brings us to the words of Jesus in our text. Jesus described the leaders of the Jews as blind guides leading an equally blind people. Both of them have one certain end – the ditch. As it is in the physical, even much so in the spiritual. When we hail a bike or taxi driver, we don’t usually ask if they have a good vision. We just hopped in presumably. How many of the several thousands that pilot the spiritual “vehicle” of people’s lives really have good “vision”? How many have an idea of where they are going? If what we have described in the physical holds any semblance in the spiritual, then it is serious indeed. For the sake of our sanity and eternity, it is good to ask questions. Know the ones you follow or allow to speak over your life. This is one reason you have been given the Spirit. He can guide you into all truth. By the Spirit, you can gain your freedom from abusers and manipulators masquerading as God-sent ones.