The Tuesday after the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on September 2, 2025 by under
Scripture: St. John 9:1-7 (NKJV)
9:1 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.
Devotion
What distinguishes the righteous from the unrighteous? Jesus is the only difference. Jesus is the light of the world, and those who live their lives in faith, who live their lives in Christ, walk in the light of life and truth. Jesus also said that for judgment He had come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind (verse 39). The difference between people in this world is whether or not they admit they are blind.
Once we admit that we are helpless and hopeless in this world, the way is open for the light of Christ to enter our souls. But, to those who arrogantly believe that they are wise and they understand, to them the light of Christ cannot come. They, by their willful self-righteousness, are confirmed in their darkness, and they plunge deeper and deeper into that darkness.
Jesus is the light of the world, the One who opens blind eyes and confirms the self-righteous in their blindness. This same Messiah says to all, “Trust in Me for your standing before the Father, and I will give you eyes to see.”
Collect: Almighty and Everlasting God, Who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of Thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
