Tuesday after the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on August 30, 2022 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
Sometimes a particular affliction can be seen as the consequence for a particular sin. But that is not always the case. Here this man’s blindness was neither the result of his sin, nor of his parents’. Jesus speaks of a greater purpose! This man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. The vocation of the Messiah included the performance of signs in connection with the teaching of the Word of God. In John 6:29 Jesus said, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Having been sent into this world, Jesus is doing His Father’s work of creating faith in the Messiah. The Old Testament promised His coming, and now with His arrival, Jesus is the One “whom He sent.” By healing this blind man Jesus sheds light on who He is—Jesus is “the Light of the world.”
Our life is in God’s hands. We pray for a higher purpose. Whether we are confessing sins or professing the Savior, we ask that God’s works would be revealed in our Christian life.
Prayer: Almighty and Everlasting God, Who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and 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.
