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| Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:08PM | | | | A Man Born Blind | Tags: James Dobson, Martin Luther King, Jr., John the Baptist, Jesus
| | | | A Man Born Blind
John 9:1-4
Jesus and his disciples passed a man blind from birth and his disciples asked who sinned. Some Rabbis taught that there was no suffering without sin so Jesus’ troubled disciples asked whether he was blind because his parents sinned or because a fetus could sin in the womb. Jesus said that the man had been blind from birth so that God’s work could be revealed through him.
That troubled me as a child, that someone was blind from birth so that Jesus could heal him. Later I rationalized that I was blind to many things because I took them for granted, but being blind from birth everything this man saw was a miracle. Not just his first sight but everything he... | | | | | |
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