Here we go repeating ourselves again. Same verses, different perspective though. And being someone else most likely a better perspective as well. Looking at today’s lesson it is not that we wear rejection as a badge of honor, but happy it is that we may be separated by what our lips testify. I pray that God causes us to find comfort in His light and message and we are happy not to follow the world.
Extra Credit reading: I thought this one fitting for today by Octavius Winslow. This for any looking for guidance from the world, pulpit, or especially this commentary. Short read entitled Human Guidence
Jhn 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Jhn 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
Jhn 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
Jhn 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
Jhn 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
discussion forum : Is it recorded that anybody else ever held a blind man previously to this?
"And they cast him out" (John 9:34). "Happy man! He had followed the light, in simplicity and sincerity. He had borne an honest testimony to the truth. His eyes had been opened to see and his lips to testify. It was no matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, but simple truth, and for that they cast him out. He had never troubled them in the days of his blindness and beggary. Perhaps some of them may have proudly and ostentatiously tossed him a trifling alms as they walked past, thus getting a name amongst their fellows for benevolence; but now this blind beggar had become a powerful witness. Words of truth now flowed from his lips—truth far too powerful and piercing for them to stand, so they ‘thrust him out.’ Happy, thrice happy man! again we say, This was the brightest moment in his career. These men, though they knew it not, had done him a real service. They had thrust him out into the most honored position of identification with Christ as the despised and rejected One" (C.H.Malan.).
