John 9:1-3
Healing the Man Born Blind
As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
In the story of Easter in the Old Testament, her uncle, Mordecai, was informed of a plot against the Jews that would utterly wipe them out. He needed to get a message to the King to stop the plot and knew that God had put Easter in the exact place that God could use her to save the nation. In his message to Easter the most famous words of that book are stated to her by Mordecai:
Esther 4:14
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”
God has and does put certain people in the exact place He wants them to accomplish His glory. For Easter it was winning a beauty contest and becoming the Queen of a foreign land for the sole purpose to rescue the nation of Israel from destruction. In the passage in John we have the story of a man born blind that has been told, preached upon, written about and studied for centuries. When the disciples were asked about his condition as to why he was blind the answer was that he was in this state for "such a time as this." He was born blind because for this moment, the moment the disciples saw him, he would be the forefront of the work of Christ. He suffered many years with no sight just so at that very moment the disciples would see him and Christ would heal him. This is truly an example of what Paul taught us in Romans:
Romans 9:22-23
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
God has made me the way He wants. He can use me the way He wants. He might use me for a season and then put me back on the shelf for another day. All for His glory. Can the pot say to the potter, "Why did you make me so?" This blind man will eventually be rejected and put out of the Jewish worship service. He will come to knowledge of Christ. But, for all his life up to this point he was blind just so God could be glorified at the exact moment God wanted him.
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