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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
John 9:1-16
The gospel of John is the one in which we read of personal meetings of individuals with the Lord: Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, the paralytic at Bethesda . . . men and women in all conditions have dealings with the Lord Jesus individually. Have you, dear reader, had a personal interview with the Lord Jesus?
This man, who was born blind, illustrates our natural condition. Sin makes us unable to see God’s light. Our moral and spiritual vision has been obscured since birth. God must open our eyes to our own condition, to the demands of His holiness and to the world.
It is not as a consequence of one particular sin that God punished this man and his parents; but this infirmity is to be the opportunity for the Lord Jesus to make His grace shine out. The clay which He makes is a figure of His humanity displayed to man. But in order to see, this man has to be washed – the Word (the water) revealing Christ to him as the sent One from God (Siloam). The blind man goes off there believing and comes back seeing. Then we have the matter of his witness. His neighbours, those who knew him well, are amazed. Is it possible that this is the same man? A conversion cannot pass unnoticed. Has our own conversion produced in our lives a change visible to everyone?
