“Hear, you deaf;
    look, you blind, and see!
19 Who is blind but my servant,
    and deaf like the messenger I send?
Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,
    blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;
    your ears are open, but you do not listen.”

“What consumes your mind controls your life.”

Unlike the Messiah (1-6), Israel was a failed servant, and paid for her sin in the years of Babylonian captivity. She had ”seen many things” (20). In other words, the nation had been the recipient of great privileges (e.g. promises, prophecies, and not least God’s Word – see v.21). But we can live in proximity to remarkable spiritual realities, and yet not pay attention to them.

In the Bible, privilege brings responsibility.

Our privileges are even greater than theirs, living as we do on this side of the Cross and the Resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; possessing, as we do, a complete Bible. But how’s our attention span? We live in an increasingly distracted age. Are we failing to see the many ‘burning bushes’ all around us?

Progress in the Christian life is enabled and encouraged by giving time and attention to the things of God.

Pay attention!