Title: Visually Impaired Revealing God's Glory
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Every year, the third Sunday in April is the Disabled Day, established and observed by the General Assembly as Disabled Day. It is a Sunday to pray while thinking about the will of the Lord who loves the disabled and marginalized more. Example: Dr. Young-Woo Kang. “Status of Persons with Disabilities in 2007”
By healing a man who was blind from birth, Jesus testified that he was the true light of the world. At that time, the blind man was an incurable disease. This incurable disease was regarded by the Jews as a curse from God for sin. Thus, when a blind man begged on the street for a living, people were interested in whose sin it was that he was born blind. So the disciples asked, whose sin was it that this man was born blind? Is it because of your own sins? Or is it because of the sins of the parents? But Jesus said something unexpected. “Not because this man or his parents sinned, but so that the works of God might be revealed in him.” He made the blind man, who people thought was a cursed life, realize that there is a sublime purpose of God. In the eyes of the Lord, the life of this blind man was sublime. All human beings, like this blind man, are beings with a noble purpose of God. Then how did this blind man testify of God's sublime works?
1. He testified by enduring the curse of life.
2. They testified by obeying the words of Jesus.
Jesus declared himself to be the light. Now he testified of that fact by healing the blind. Jesus made mud, put it on the eyes of the blind, and told them to go to the pool of Siloam and wash. Knowing that the blind is an incurable disease, it is not easy for him to obey. But he obeyed. As a result, his eyes, who had been blind from birth, were opened. There was only darkness along the way, but light came. Truly, to him, Jesus was the light. He was truly at a dramatic turning point in his life. He not only healed the sick by obeying the Word, but through this work, he was able to testify that Jesus is the true light of the world (8:12). There was no need to walk in darkness again. This made his life more sublime.
3. They testified to the facts of what Jesus had done.