True Blindness

Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. John 9:1-3 NKJV.

Jesus said, "You're asking the wrong question. You're looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world's Light."

He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man's eyes, and said, "Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam". The man went and washed - and saw. John 9:3-7 The Message.

A man blind from birth. A crowd blinded by blame. A God not blind to either.
The disciples wanted to pin the man's blindness to sin. Jesus detected their spiritual myopia and brought to light their lack of perspective in understanding the efforts of God to bring about wholeness in man, not just the physical but also the emotional and the spiritual.

Would the disciples react to the situation differently had they been blind from birth? Would they have judged if they had realized that they were spiritually blind? Would they have understood the dark world that the blind man had lived in all his life up to the point when Jesus healed him? Would they have known how it felt when even your own would be so keen to be disassociated with you because of societal pressure? Would you? Would I?

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. And they asked them, saying, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" His parents answered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 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." His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews agreed already that if anyone confessed that He (Jesus) was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. John 9:18-22 NKJV.

May not be blindness. May be an illness. May be disparity in wealth, education or status. May be behavioral. May be inborn or it may not. Then what?

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