36 He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”
37 And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.”
38 Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.
39 And Jesus said, “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.”
40 Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
I have several thought on above verses. First of all, as we can seen from the passage, the blind man was casted and Jesus approached him and asked: “Do you believe in the Son of GOD?. For me, the way Jesus approached the blind man is kind of confirmation that GOD will look after us. Sometimes, because of what we believe, we will feel different than most of other people in this world. However, God will come to us and questioned our faith, and we have to examine our faith thoroughly whether we do believe in Him or not even though the world seems to “cast” us out. Moreover, it also shows that even thought the world does not care about us, but GOD does.
Secondly, the blind man answered Jesus “Who is He, Lord that I may believe in Him”. This blind man had a hunger to seek the Lord. He submissively and obediently yearns for believing in GOD as he said “that I may believe in Him”. This blind man was more than willing to engage a conversation with Jesus. Surely, nowadays, we don’t have opportunity to chat face to face with GOD but we can pray to have conversation with GOD. Pray so that GOD knows what are our concerns, worries, etc.
Thirdly, Jesus answered the blind man: “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you. When we search for GOD, He definitely will be there to answer us. Of course, today, we won’t hear a direct answer from GOD like Jesus answered the blind man and Jesus will not physically talking to us. But, we need to trust that GOD will answer our questions. God has numerous ways to answer our prayers. The answers could be testimony from others brethrens, words of encouragement from brothers and sisters as well as sermons and word of GOD delivered from Preacher or Holy workers. What we need to do is diligently reading the bible, sensitively listening word of GOD and most importantly, keeps those in our heart.
Fourthly, this blind man did have a simple faith. He simply believes in GOD and worshipped in Him after Jesus healed him and explained him who is GOD. The blind man didn’t any questions like the Pharisees. The blind mind just believes in GOD like there is no other way. We, human being, sometimes do have rational thinking which will hold back our faith. Sometimes, we do ponder, how things could be turned out like this, like that and we ask a lot of question based on our rationality. But, if we judged everything based on our rationality, we will have no faith in GOD.
In sum, from above paragraph we can learn few teaching as follows:
1. Don’t worry about what people think about us, GOD will take care. What we need to do is hold fast our faith.
2. We should constantly have the hunger to search for GOD and be submissive to Him.
3. Be sensitive to word of GOD and have faith in Him and eventually, we will realize that we have a good relationship with GOD. Believe that GOD will provide us with “answers”.
4. Have a simple faith and just believe. Don’t mix rationality with our faith. Set aside all those rationality, level-head thinking in order to have simple faith like this blind man.
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