“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him” (John 9:31).
The rulers of the Temple could not invalidate the miracle of healing the blind man during the interview with the parents, so they went back to talk to him, in order to confuse him with questions to get him to contradict himself. They insisted that the man confess that he wasn’t honoring God by saying that a Sabbath-breaker had performed the miracle. The blind man hadn’t seen Jesus and could not recognize Him, but his claim had irrefutable evidence: ‘ Though I was blind, now I see” (John 9:25). His brave defense unmasked the ignorance and blindness that the Jews had chosen for themselves.
There was no special virtue in the mud that Jesus made, nor in the pool of Shiloh; although the Jews believed that there were curative properties in saliva. That was not the reason Jesus used it, though, but rather to strengthen the faith of the one who was suffering. He sent him to the pool of Shiloh, and when he went, he was still blind. There is always a part that God wants us to play in the miracles He does each day in our lives.
The defense of the blind man is admirable. He had lived his life as a slave to the idea that he was being punished for his parents’ sins, and he felt resentment toward them. Because of them, he believed, he lived a life without any purpose but his healing transformed everything and made it clear. He was not to blame for his illness, and neither were his parents. God had answered, and this ended the farce that he had been living; God does hear sinners.
It was not true that God works miracles only for those who are worthy (see verse 29). God had performed the greatest miracle in this man’s life. In his defense, he included the fact that he obeyed and feared God. The years of blindness had changed his scale of values. He didn’t care about being expelled from the synagogue for thirty days. What did a temporary expulsion from the Temple matter to a man who had spent his life ds a blind beggar! He had experienced a healing that freed him from all his guilt.
It is better to be at peace with God and persecuted by the world, than to be at peace with the world and, in the end, be punished by God. The blind man’s life now had a purpose; he had a testimony to give: ‘I was blind, but now I see.” Although physically he was the same, his life was different: he had been transformed, his mental and spiritual blindness had ended, and now he felt joy in telling others about the double miracle.
Ask God to open your eyes so that you might find the purpose for your life too.
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Taken from: Devotional Thoughts for Women 2023
“DAUGHTER OF MINE” Do Not Be Afraid
From: Arsenia Fernandez-Uckele
Collaborators: Xiomara Perdomo & Esteban Cortes
