Daily Lesson for February 15, 2022

 Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 9 verses 37 through 41:

37Jesus said to him, ‘You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.’ 38He said, ‘Lord,* I believe.’ And he worshipped him. 39Jesus said, ‘I came into this world for judgement so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.’ 40Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, ‘Surely we are not blind, are we?’ 41Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, “We see”, your sin remains."

Our problem is often not what we don't see, but what we do.

We get a glimpse, and think we understand the whole thing. We look from one vantage point and think it's God's view. We get glimpses of God, through our reading of the Bible and our own experience, but we fail to see there are other experiences and other ways to read -- other things to read.

"We see through a glass darkly," St. Paul said. "We see only in part, and know only in part."

This should be cause for some real humility on the part of Christians.

Jesus said he came so that those who see may become blind."

Let's do something radical. Let's embrace that with humility. Let's receive it as the grace it is, even if we can't see it yet.

Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.