John 9: 24 - 41

 John 9: 24 - 41 

“I was blind now I see”. In the conflict between the man born blind and the Jews all the power credentials, authority, control, etc was on one side of the argument.  But the man born blind had experienced Christ. It has been said he who has an experience does not need an argument. Lifelong blindness had been changed to vision for the man born blind, nothing else needed to be argued. His experience with Christ provided him great courage. And it enabled him to stand up to the powers that were. His arguments though he was not educated were irrefutable. He was so forceful that the opposition was reduced to slander and putting him out. He may have been expelled from the synagogue or simply removed from their presents neither of which mattered to this man whatsoever.

 But we must never forget that the point of the experience is not the experience. A lesson that we desperately need to remember today.  The point of the experience is found in verse 38, “And he said Lord I believe. And he worshiped him”. That is what the experience is supposed to lead us to. Faith in Jesus Christ and worshiping Him. The word for worship here is a compound word. The first part is toward and the second part is kiss. It literally means to kiss the ground. This man put his face in the dirt before Jesus as an act of humility and acceptance of Jesus's lordship over him. Every experience needs to lead us to this point and to this place.

“Lord, keep me from seeking experience for the sake of experience, but rather as one more way to know You. AMEN.”