Fogged Glasses
Here in Tennessee the heat and humidity are a thing. Since I wear glasses I can go from an airconditioned home to the outside and instantly be made unable to see because my glasses immediately fog up in the humidity and heat.
When this happens I have to stand in one place until they eventually clear otherwise I risk running into something ro stepping off my porch in a way that could hurt me.
When you are unable to see clearly it hinders your progress. You cannot get anywhere effectively. This is the problem with not truly being New Covenant.
2Corinthians 3:12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— 13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains un-lifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Having one foot in each covenant is like trying to walk around wearing fogged glasses.
Jesus said the following: Luke 6:39 And He spoke a parable to them: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?
We read in Corinthians how many have not had the veil removed. Those who have not had the veil removed by Christ and think they should be leading others are actually like this passage we just read. The blind leading the blind. They are stumbling around in the dark bumping into things and not even knowing what it was they bumped into. They are not making real progress as they otherwise could were they to leave behind the mixture and dive headlong into the New Covenant that promotes Christ Jesus as having finished the work needed to bring us into all that God has for us.
It takes a revelation from the Holy Spirit visiting a heart and making known who Jesus is and what He has accomplished on their behalf. When that is made known by revelation to the heart faith awakens and a confession of believing it occurs and they are set free from their blindness to see with new eyes what they had been missing apart from Christ and His completed work at the cross.
The church is not in need of more veil ministries, she needs ministries who know how to preach Christ and Him crucified so that the veil is taken away. A grace awakening is what the church needs. The grace in Scripture that places us under His favor so we can know His presence in our lives continually. That kind of grace produces the fruit of a changed life devoted to Jesus with a grateful heart. That’s the kind of grace that results in boasting in what Jesus did as opposed to what I did. We need the kind of ministries that make much of what Jesus accomplished and less about what we must do to force God to be good to us. God is already good all the time. He is not reluctant to act on our behalf and in need of being bribed by something we do to get Him to act. He is waiting on our faith to be activated with regard to His goodness and willingness on our behalf.
Fogged glasses will never consitently get anyone where they want or need to be. They obscure the view of His love and goodness and marr a persons idea of His attitude towards them. They create a "He loves me, He loves me not approach to knowing Him." They can, at best, produce double mindedness regarding His faithfulness and love.
