The fact that a shift in Jehoshaphat's priorities brought blind spots in the area of moral judgment and discrimination should not be surprising. It is a law that God has built into His moral universe. In a moral sense the Lord meant that if our spiritual eyesight is good, with our focus on Him far and above everything else, then we will see moral issues clearly and be able to make right moral judgments. As we make God's will, as revealed in His Word, the top priority in our lives, we will increasingly view our lives and make our decisions with God's perspective. But if our spiritual eye is no longer clear and the Lord's will and interests are no longer our primary will and interest, then our spiritual eyesight is bad.
Moral issues are out of focus and distorted in one way or another.
Without clear spiritual vision, our blind spots will accumulate. Obviously this is because the Lord is no longer at the center of our lives to give us the desire and the strength we so desperately need. It goes without saying that in the area of our financial security it is easy to take our eyes off the Lord. Our natural desire for more can lead to questionable business decisions such as binding alliances with non-Christians. Another area where we are prone to blind spots is the area of our physical and emotional needs.