Day 18: The Man Born Blind (John 9)
Jesus was ministering from place to place. While he was traveling he came upon a man who had been blind since birth. His disciples were full of questions for their Master. Had the man sinned to bring about his blindness? Or had his parents? Jesus took the opportunity to have a “teachable moment” with his disciples and the others who were there.
“It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him,” was Jesus’ reply. Jesus then declared that as long as He was in the world, He was the Light of the world. Even while He was saying this, He spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle and put it on the blind man’s eyes, telling the man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash.
This very intimate exchange probably stunned those present. Surely they wondered at the ways of Jesus. But all their musings came to an end when the blind man returned SEEING! The Light of the World had brought to his blind eyes--and his blind soul--the first light he had ever seen. God used His Son to perform a healing that had never occurred before, so that He might be glorified.
When questioned by the Pharisees as to who had done this miracle, and whether Jesus was a sinner because He healed on the Sabbath, the now-seeing man could only proclaim, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” This man held no resentment for the purpose of his blindness, but instead gave a powerful testimony of God’s work in him, received Jesus by believing that He was the Son of Man and the Lord, and began to worship Him.
From your birth sin has been your handicap. It doesn’t matter that sin originated with Adam. What matters is that you were saved to show God’s work in and through you. You have been washed by the blood of the same Man who healed the blind man so that you could spiritually see. Are you resentful of the circumstances that God has allowed in your life? Or are you living to give testimony to the One who saved you and to reveal His good works in you?
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