READ JOHN 9:1-7
1-2) Who sinned that this man should be blind? Does God punish us with illness when we sin? This was a common enough belief among Jews in Jesus day. "...the disciples assumed the sin must have been in the part of his parents or during his time in the womb. Song Rabbah 1:41 (a later rabbinic work) states that when a pregnant woman worshiped in a pagan temple, the unborn child also committed idolatry. This is one example of how in rabbinic Jewish thought, an unborn child was capable of sinning." (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study) They had forgotten what God had said in Ezekiel 18:20, "...The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself." Only God knows with certainty why some babies are born with defects. It is not our role to assign blame where blame is not applicable.
3-5) The purpose of the blindness of this man is so that the works of God would be displayed in him. Who sinned is not the issue here. The truth here was that Jesus is the light of the world. All of us are born spiritually blind. We are not sinners because we sin, we are sinners because we are born with a sin nature. Proving that we are in need of a Savior. Jesus is that one and only savior who can open the eyes of the blind.
6-7) Jesus applied clay to the eyes of the blind man and than tells him to go wash the clay off. The man believed Jesus' Word and did as commanded, coming back seeing.
FATHER, IN CHRIST WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO TRUST AND OBEY YOU JUST LIKE THIS MAN WHO WAS BORN BLIND. THANK YOU FOR A MOST COMPASSIONATE AND LOVING SAVIOR. AMEN.
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