How many people would readily admit that they suffer from blind spots or bondage? How would we know if we do? How would we know what the blind spots are or what we are suffering in bondage to? What might be possible for us if we would admit this, and why don’t we?
Here is one possible way forward, if we dare …
1. Blind spots—Ask others to tell you what they are. No? Why not?
2. Bondages. Are they large and small? Try to stop doing something you are in the habit of doing or thinking or saying. Psalm 136 is about slavery. Israel’s bondage in Egypt is parabolic. First, consider what it took to bring Israel out of Egypt physically, but then consider that Israel brought their bondage out with them. If you look up Egypt and bondage in a concordance you will notice just how parabolic that history is and how we all suffer in a similar way.
3. Control issues—If God is not in control of my life, then who is? Me? Any time I think that I am in control, it really means that one or more forces of the devil, world, and/or my corrupt human nature are actually controlling me. Consider the difference between, “What if I don’t like it?” with “What if I fail to appreciate how much God and others do for me?” How does the corrupt human lust for control deprive us of the joy of a life conscious of all that comes to us as gifts?