The Bible has many pairs of metaphors for the human condition and our need. These pairs of images portray our predicament and the solution. In bondage, we need liberation. In exile and estranged, we need to return and reconnect. Blind, we need to have our sight restored. In the dark, we need enlightenment. Sick and wounded, we need healing. Hungry and thirsty, we need food and drink. Sinful and unclean, we need forgiveness and cleansing. Dead and entombed, we need to be raised into new life. Yet another of the Bible’s correlative metaphors for our condition and the solution is “closed hearts”
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