Jeff Parrott
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first heard Jul 2026
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their attention is distracted.
And so their inattention makes them blind to something right in front of them, especially if that something is unexpected.
Now there's a good chance you're familiar with the famous experiment that displays this tendency.
It's called the invisible gorilla test.
With the invisible gorilla test, subjects watch a video of people passing a basketball back and forth.
Viewers are asked to focus their attention on the number of passes between people in the video.
And while their eyes are functioning and focused on the passes, many viewers don't notice the gorilla walking across the screen.
It's the unexpected thing that they miss.
Now, in most life scenarios, someone dressed in a gorilla suit would be impossible to miss.
But when you aren't expecting it, if you're looking for something else altogether and have inattentional blindness, well, that gorilla might as well be invisible.
I wonder if it's possible for you and I to have our own version of inattentional blindness with Jesus.
He can be right there in front of us, yet we can miss him because we're busy looking for something else.
Could you be blind to who Jesus is and to what he's doing?
Could you functionally be making him invisible?
Our passage today in John chapter nine is a little bit like an invisible Jesus test.
It forces us to reckon with the spiritual blindness of the human heart, and it causes us to consider what we're paying attention to, who we're paying attention to, and how we can start seeing differently.
Now, as we approach God's word together, let's slow down and ask for His grace, for His kindness to move through our time.
Heavenly Father, we do thank you for the gift of life, for the gift of breath, and we thank you for the amazing gift of your word that you give to us.
We bring before you every part of our human experience now, the things that we're bringing into this moment, our joys and our sorrows,
our anxiety and our excitement, our calendars and our contingencies.
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