One thing I know. Part 1

"And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  John 9:2   NKJV

For the next few days or so, I want us to look at and pick the bones out of the episode of the  man born blind and people's interpretations of this. We don't know everything, although we can often feel that we do.

Assumption enters into the lives of the disciples again. They assumed that this man's sickness was the result of his parent’s sin. Which was not so. This may have come about by the fact that Jews connected suffering with sin. They worked on the assumption that wherever there was suffering, somewhere there was sin. Assumption is a troublemaker when it is used in the wrong manner. We can easily jump into a conversation with assumption and completely miss the real reason about something. Thankfully, Jesus explained that this man's physical blindness was not caused by someone's sin but, by a human defect and a human tragedy.

It is difficult to imagine what this man had suffered all of his life but, it is obvious that he had never been able to look into his mother's eyes as she nurtured him. As he became older, he was not able to go out and play with the other children or have the opportunity to work the fields with his dad. He had never seen the beautiful colours of flowers, or the skies at night or morning. It is hard to realise what it was like. The only job that he could do, was to beg, at least this gave him some money for his pocket each day.

Jesus mentioned another type of blindness - spiritual blindness of the heart. The disciples had displayed this type as they made assumptions of his blindness. Jesus mentioned the works of God in this situation in John 9:3: 

'Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.'

Somethings are meant to be for a reason, and for this man, he was to receive his sight along with eternal life. The timing needed to be right.

It's hard to imagine just how this man felt when for the first time in his life, he could see and put together the sound he had been used to with a view of seeing what he was hearing. God's heart must have been breaking as He looked down on this man whose life had changed for the better, knowing that he would never have to beg again and would also be added to Jesus' followers too.  God does beautiful things for us all and that is 'One thing I know'

If you don't know Jesus or, have fallen away, why not say this prayer right now:

'Lord Jesus, I have sinned and I ask you to forgive me and be my Lord and Saviour. Please come into my heart, fill me with Your Spirit and give me a brand new start today.

In Jesus' Name. Amen'

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