We continue in His word. While it is still day may He illuminate our need and blind us instead to our self. Grace be with all that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and love His message.
Extra credit: Humbling and in a lesson learned, I had nobody post to my Guestbook. If you get a chance please take a minute simply enter here and click POST and add any encouraging words that may bless others. (FYI anybody can view anyone's post it is all-public i.e. Guestbook and not e-mail).
Other reading: one of my favorite authors A.W. Pink, I figured this fit with today’s message, Divine Sovereignty
Jhn 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Jhn 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Jhn 9:6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Jhn 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
- Is there any light now that Jesus died on the cross or what is vs 5 referring?
The Father who sent Christ into the world gave Him a work to do. To glorify the Father (John 17:1), to redeem His elect (Gal 4:4-5), to preach the gospel, and to be the light to the spiritually blind (Luke 4:18). Healing those who are physically blind is a strong picture and type of our Lord’s great missions. The apostles record more cases of blindness healed than any other single affliction. It is most likely not just a coincidence that healing of this blind man immediately follows Christ encounter with the spiritual ignorance and spiritual blindness demonstrated by the Jews in chapter 8. In the contrast of that chapter we now see Jesus doing the work He was sent to do and healing this man. Dear reader, there will be a time though when there will be no more mercy, no more healing. There is a time set and unchanging that will come that the day will end. In that time all that should have sight shall see and the blind will die in their sins. And all that the Father sent Him to do will manifest itself in perfect completion. The Father will be glorified, the elect will all be redeemed, and in the destruction of darkness the light will shine with a brightness we can not imagine.
(John 17:4-5) “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
