Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 9 verses 13 through 17:
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”
Jesus came to not only open the eyes of the blind, but also to show just how closed the eyes of the so-called seeing can sometimes be.
The Pharisees took offense that Jesus had given the man his sight on the sabbath. So it is revealed just how controlling some can be when it comes to other people's bodies, health, freedom, rights, emancipation, etc.
But the Pharisees couldn't see it. They were blind. And when their blindness was revealed they couldn't stand it. So they began to plot to kill Jesus.
And then the irony Jesus named came to pass. They were willing on the sabbath to take life but not to give it, to kill but not heal.
And the law which was given for life was used to take life; and the light was extinguished by those who valued other people's blindness over their own sight.
Sad, but true.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. Tomorrow's Lesson comes from Luke chapter 10.
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