"As He walked along, He saw a man who had been blind from birth." -John
9:1
The world is divided into two groups: those who know they're
spiritually blind, and ask for and receive sight from Jesus, and others who
refuse to admit they're blind and are even blind to being blind. Jesus said: "I
came into this world to divide it, to make the sightless see and the seeing
blind" (Jn 9:39). Many take offense at being called blind. "Some of the
Pharisees around Him picked this up, saying, 'You are not calling us blind, are
You?' To which Jesus replied: 'If you were blind there would be no sin in that.
"But we see," you say, and your sin remains' " (Jn 9:40-41).
We were born
blind. We inherited this from our parents Adam and Eve. Our sight was restored
when we were reborn in the waters of baptism. Nevertheless, we continue to have
eye problems because of our sins, which originally caused our blindness. We must
confess our sins, and Jesus will again restore our vision. We keep bumping into
things, crashing into brick walls, and having terrible accidents. What does it
take to wake us up to reality?
"Awake, O sleeper, arise from the dead, and
Christ will give you light" (Eph 5:14). "So the man went off and washed, and
came back able to see" (Jn 9:7).
"The Lord is my Shepherd; I
shall not want. In verdant pastures He gives me repose; beside restful waters He
leads me; He refreshes my soul" (Ps 23:1-3).
"Not as man sees
does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the
heart." -1 Sm 16:7
3/30/14
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