Sinner, Enlightenment of the – Charles Spurgeon

I CAN only compare the enlightened sinner to a person who has been shut up in a dark prison and has never seen the light, and suddenly his liberator opens a window and the prisoner is staggered and amazed at what he sees when he looks abroad on hill and flood. To the believer, heaven-given sight is so superlative a gift, and what is revealed to him so amazes him, that he scarce knows where he is. Very frequently, when Christ opens the eyes, it is done in a moment, and done completely in that moment, though in other instances it is a more gradual light: men are at first seen as trees walking, and then by degrees film after film is taken from the spiritual eye.