Here's mud in your eye!

It was a good day and it was a bad day for a man born with blindness that Jesus encountered.

He was judged by everyone, including the disciples who assumed either he or his parents had done something really bad for God to have afflicted him so. Then, when Jesus opened the man's eyes, people questioned his identity. Pharisees questioned him about the prophet who healed him. Was the man one of the prophet's disciples? Was there some conspiracy afoot to cure all blind people with mud? Was there a conspiracy to undermine Moses by healing on the sabbath? His parents were questioned but they refused to be vilified and told the Pharisees that the formerly blind one was old enough to speak for himself.

It becomes clear in the story that, ironically, the formerly blind man sees a lot more about God and relationships with God than do the Pharisees. Even blind, he saw more truth than they did. What do you think that says about God? What do you think that says about knowledge? Who's in the dark here?

Jesus says that we should do God's work while the light is shining so come to worship this Sunday and let's see if we can sort this out.