Day 26--Open the eyes of my heart, Lord

35 Jesus heard they had ejected him, and when he found him he said to him, 'Do you believe in the Son of man?'

36 'Sir,' the man replied, 'tell me who he is so that I may believe in him.'

37 Jesus said, 'You have seen him; he is speaking to you.'

38 The man said, 'Lord, I believe,' and worshipped him.

JOHN 9:35-38

This passage of the Gospel according to John makes my jaw drop to the floor. A man, who had been blind his whole life, is healed by Jesus and immediately realises that He is the Christ, the Messiah. Let me break it down for you:

Jesus: 'Do you believe in the Messiah?'

Blind guy: 'well, who is it?'

Jesus: 'It's me!'

Blind guy: 'Okay!' *starts worshipping him*

Now, our society might look at this guy and say 'whoa, take it easy man! How are you just going to start worshiping some guy you just met?'

But, you see, this guy was blind. Had always been blind. He had never, ever, ever seen the world, a human face, himself! And here comes Jesus and opens his eyes for the first time. And the thing about the blind man's story that is very ironic is that, while he was physically blind, the "eyes" (so to speak) of his heart were open to the revelation of God through Jesus. Meanwhile, the pharisees, who didn't have visual impairments, were blinded by their arrogance and could not recognize Jesus as their saviour! I mean, if you read the passage, the blind man tells them: "You think he's bad? SERIOUSLY?  Like, God doesn't do miracles through bad people. We all know this...right?"

SO, my friend, who are you: the blind man or the pharisee? Remember, I said yesterday that I am the pharisee. Well, God loves even the pharisees, and there's hope for us. Notice how in this passage, the evangelist also says that there was conflict among the pharisees because some of them did kind of believe Jesus was special! 

The ultimate question is: are you blind? Then ask Jesus to heal you.