Blindness by Choice

When a repeatedly arrested, probation-bound assemblyman is easily renominated, it reveals not merely the corruption of leaders but the deeper corruption of the people who elect them. As voters tolerate sins in their children and demand tolerance for their own, it is no wonder they tolerate the same in their legislators. Isaiah warned that in times of judgment, guilt runs through every class and station “as with the people, so with the priest… as with the lender, so with the borrower” because God locates sin wherever it lives, not merely at the top. The real crisis, as Proverbs 29:18 teaches, is the absence of biblical vision: without the teaching of God’s Word, people “run wild” and society decays, but where God’s law is kept, there is blessing. Our greatest need, then, is not better politicians but faithful proclamation of the Word yet today, men prefer blindness to vision.