Bible Verse of The Day – 1-29-21

John 9:4-5 (NKJV) 4 I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Let’s pick up where we left off yesterday.

Jesus was to heal the blind man so that they could see the power of God in Him, and so they would acknowledge that He was the Christ and Savior of the world.

There was a purpose for this man’s blindness. It was to reveal God’s power working through His Son.

The eyes of many hearts needed to be opened.

Jesus had a limited amount of time to do the work of His Father. He had an ordained time frame in which to get certain things accomplished in certain places, for certain people to observe. It was a God-given, God-ordained plan.

Jesus Had a purpose here, and so do we.

This blind man was asked, “who healed you?”. He told them exactly what happened.

Isn’t that all we need to do, tell people exactly who Jesus is and what He has done throughout our lives?

Sometimes I wonder if we complicate this whole process or experience of being a child of God, when all He really wants us to do is to share His word and testify of His goodness.

Maybe some of us don’t quite have a testimony yet. We have been too wrapped up in our own blindness about our situation to even let God do something about it.

Sometimes our desire for sympathy will keep us blind.

John 9:11 (NKJV) 11 He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”

It’s funny how this story is about a blind man that was given his sight.

I would say that these religious people had an issue with truth vs. intellect.

Even after this man testified about what happened, and the result was staring them in the face, they still wouldn’t see or believe!

John 9:28 (NKJV) 28 Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.

They refused to see the truth. They were closed-hearted.

They reviled him instead.

What does revile mean? It means that they criticized, abused and angrily insulted him.

Boy…now doesn’t this sound familiar, when someone doesn’t agree with our thinking?

God is speaking to someone’s heart today.

He is saying, “the truth is standing right in front of you and you still want to argue the point instead of accepting it for what it’s worth. Will you choose to remain blind or will you let me give you your sight?”.

This blind man had a purpose. He was there for God’s work to be revealed through His Son. He healed the blind man.

Some saw it and some heard it. But the religious people could not see the truth of it as it stood before them.

Don’t let our intellect blind us from what God wants to show us by faith!

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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