Hello everyone,
I looked at John 9 again, just as I did in a write-up of mine recently. The chapter was about the blind man whom Jesus restored His sight. There was a lot of controversy over the restoration of the blind man’s sight from the Pharisees, they felt Jesus performed miracles on the Sabbath, and as such, He should be brought to book. I went through the entire chapter and I saw that there are many Pharisees today who have lost focus completely. My write-up today is to relate the event that went down in John 9 with our environment today.
As I have said before and I would say it again, Christianity is not a religion, but many have made it so without thinking, focusing on dogma without using their senses again. In John 9, the disciples of Jesus when they saw the blind man wanted to know who sinned that made the man blind, so they asked Jesus. Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” Jesus made it clear that it was His responsibility to restore the sight of the man, all these is because of the fallen nature of man which brought about the man’s blindness. Jesus recognised His responsibility given to Him by God. Jesus had to show love to the man by restoring the sight of the blind man, displaying the love God has for humanity, but religion won’t make you see the love of God.
The blind man before Jesus healed him didn’t believe in Jesus, when Jesus gave him his sight the Pharisees started interrogating the man who was once blind. They were more of Jesus committing an offense to perform miracles on Sabbath than on the miracle itself. Many of us focus a lot on rules and regulations and forget what they are meant to do. The church today is to bring the lost closer to them by showing love to them through their actions, rather than condemning them. What the church needs to understand is that transformation is in their hands, but if they condemn unbelievers over their actions, they would unknowingly increase the number of unbelievers.
Jesus showed love to the man who was blind by restoring his sight, and because of what Jesus did, he was able to defend the actions of Jesus as a righteous act when in the presence of the Pharisees, [ref.: John 9:25, 31-34]. When Jesus found the man later, He said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” He answered and said, Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?” And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.” Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.” John 9:35b-38.
Just an act of kindness was shown to the man which made him believe in Jesus. Do you think he would have believed if Jesus had just spoken to him alone? What are you doing today? You are the change agent the world has been waiting for, look unto Jesus and live His life.
May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.
Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!
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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)
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