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May 20
Wednesday


RESTORING
SPIRITUAL SIGHT

READ:
John 9:1-11
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The entrance of You
words gives light, it
gives understanding to
the simple.
__Psalm 119:130
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Sanduk Ruit is a Nepalese doctor who has used his scalpel, microscope, and simplified cataract surgery technique to give sight to almost 70,000 people over the past 23 years. The poorest patients who visit his nonprofit eye center in Katmandu pay with just their gratitude.

Our Lord Jesus Christ healed many of physical blindness during His time on earth. But of greater concern to Him were the spiritually blind. Many of the religious authorities who investigated the healing of the blind man refused to believe that Jesus was not a sinner (John 9:13-34). This caused Jesus to say, "For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind" (v.39).

The apostle paul wrote of this spiritual blindness when he said, "If our gospel is veiled, it it veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them" (2 Cor. 4:3-4).

The psalmist said, "The entrance of Your words gives light" (Ps. 119:130). God's Word is what will open our eyes and cure spiritual blindness. __C. P. Hia
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`````````````````Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee!````````````
`````````````````Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me;```````````
``````````````````Once I was blind, but now I can see__```````````
`````````````````The Light of the world is Jesus. __Bliss````````````
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A world in darkness needs the light of Jesus.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ John 9:11**************

1 Now as Jesus passed by
He saw a man who was
blind from birth. 2 and His
disciples asked Him,
saying, "Rabbi, who sinned,
this man or his parents, that
he was born blind?"

3 Jesus answered, "Neither
this man nor his parents
sinned, but that the works
of God should be revealed
in him. 4 I must work the
works of Him who sent Me
while it is day; the night is
coming when no one can
work. 5 As long as I am in
the world, I am the light of
the world."

6 When He had said these
things, He spat on the
ground and made clay with
the saliva; and He anointed
the eyes of the blind man
with the clay. 7 And He said
to him, "Go, wash in the
pool of Siloam" (which is
translated, Sent). So he
went and washed, and came
back seeing.

8 Therefore the neighbors
and those who previously
had seen that he was blind
said, "Is not this he who sat
and begged?"

9 Some said, "This is he."
Others said, "He is like
him."

He said, "I am he."

10 Therefore they said to
him, "How were your eyes
opened?"

11 He answered and said,
"A Man called Jesus made
clay and anointed my eyes
and said to me, 'Go to the
pool of Siloam and wash.'
So I went and washed, and
I received sight."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The blind man first received physical sight and then spiritual sight (John
9:35-38). The theologian Augustine knew that we receive spiritual light
through God's Word (Ps. 119:130). But the understanding of divine
revelation can come only by faith. He said, "Believe in order that you
may understand." For him, faith and reason are interdependent, and
both are uniquely enabled by divine grace. __Dennis Fisher