Overcoming False Traditions

Changing one's way of thinking is one of the hardest changes in this gospel. When one has grown up believing some idea for most of their life, it can be very hard for someone to then believe something else. A false tradition that the Jews believed, including the Apostles, was people were blind because they were sinners. In the beginning of John 9, Christ comes across a blind man that had been blind since birth. In verse 3 Christ took the time to explain to these apostles "neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that works of God should be made manifest in him." I thought of how that might have been hard for the apostles to digest. For the longest time they looked at blind men as sinners and now they were being told otherwise. I thought of how difficult it has been in America's history for groups of people to overcome feelings of racism. I thought of how there might be ways I hold on to false traditions or ideologies that aren't of God. In that way we are all like the blind man by how we can be blinded from the truth because of false traditions we have brought ourselves to believe. Luckily, our savior is there to remove the blindness from us- which would take a miracle. Our savior tells us this in the Book of Mormon. Ether 12:27 we learn Christ will take the weaknesses and imperfections we have and make them in to strengths. I am grateful for my Savior making that possible.