AMLWCH METHODIST CHURCH
Wesley Street, Amlwch, North Wales

“I was blind and now I see”

(John 9:1-41)

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This gospel story is quite long.   It begins with the disciples asking what sin was committed for him to be born blind and was it his or his parent’s sin.   This is a deep question because in those times disability at birth was someone’s fault for sinning.   Medicine was a very rudimentary study.   But it was not sin that was the reason for his birth condition.   He had been chosen for Jesus to cure him of his blindness.   Those who knew the man could not believe it was the man they knew once he could see.   He had gone from darkness into light!   He was checked out by the Pharisees to discover what had happened to him.   The Pharisees were convinced that Jesus was not sent by God but was an agent of Satan.   The man himself declared that he believed Jesus to be a prophet.

This was such a problem that his parents were interviewed and they confirmed that he was their previously blind son.  

This obviously led to much head scratching.   What had happened was not possible but there was the evidence before them.   Once more he was asked about his cure.   The Pharisees declared Jesus was a sinner but the man said “All I know is that I was blind and now I see."   They still faced a problem, believing as they did that his blindness at birth was a punishment for sin.   They tried to make trouble for the man who was just an innocent beneficiary of a miracle that changed his whole life.   Jesus declared himself to be the Son of Man and the man, from that time, became a follower.

It is our experience in life that many bad deeds are carried out at night when seeing is so difficult.   Many have known a life of one level of darkness or another.   We have been let down by those who declared themselves reliable friends.   Some have been jealous of us or our lives and have given us a bad time.   From the media we get stories of heinous crimes that have killed people or left them with life-changing injuries.   Yet we do find that it is possible to come out of that darkness and live in the light, knowing Jesus as our Saviour.   In that light some of us have experienced the hand of God and know what real light is.

Jesus said “I am the light of the world.”   He also said “I am the way, the truth and the life.”   All we have to do is follow and all will be revealed in and by that light. 

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“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”