John 9

Jesus is the light of the world. He was sent so that we who live in darkness can see spiritual truth. When we perceive that God is and that He sent His Son into the world to save us from our sins, our eyes are opened. In Jesus and through the Holy Spirit we see and understand those things that once were hidden. In Jesus we hear and understand His love and longing for all people to be saved. What we can perceive to be truth, what we can hear and see with understanding, we can receive. I have made so many mistakes that so many times I say nothing, so not to bring my shame upon Him. By not speaking have I allowed the darkness to overcome the light within me? Satan loves to kill, steal from and destroy God's children. We need to be as gentle as doves but as wise as serpents to see Satan's disguises. The very things that come into our life, and we consider good, can be the very things that were made to destroy us. Our only hope is in the power of God, (Father, Son and Holy Spirit,} to never leave or forsake us. God controls all things and nothing happens that He is not aware of. In our life are areas where we can help others. If we have overcome sexual abuse, mental or physical abuse, drug addiction, alcoholism, we can help others. We can be His loving arms. If we have been poor, homeless, have experienced adultery, or suffered the death of a child we can be His hope to others that in Him they will survive. Life happens, sometimes it is overwhelming. He can take the very things meant to destroy us and turn them for our good. We were made to reveal His glory. Now, His ways are beyond our understanding, but one day we will understand His perfect plan and our place that was in it.

9 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

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

6 When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. 7 And He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

8 Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind said, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

9 Some said, "This is he." Others said, "He is like him."

He said, "I am he."

10 Therefore they said to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

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."

18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. 19 And they asked them, saying, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

20 His parents answered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself." 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

34 They answered and said to him, "You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

36 He answered and said, "Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?"

37 And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you."

38 Then he said, "Lord, I believe!" And he worshiped Him.

39 And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind."