Born Blind
Many centuries ago a beautiful baby boy was born into the home of a very happy mother and dad.
It’s not known if he had brothers or sisters or if he was the only child they had.
It’s very likely that there were other siblings, though;
In that day it was common for some mothers to give birth to a dozen or so.
The first few weeks of the baby’s life filled his parent’s hearts with joy and delight.
However, they started noticing things that made them gravely concerned that their baby boy might not have his sight.
As they moved about the room, the baby’s eyes didn’t turn to see where they would go,
And as they moved a lamp about in the dark, he didn’t seem to see the glow.
The atmosphere of the home became very somber and sad.
Their little boy was blind and, so far as they knew, never would see the light of day or the faces of his mom and dad.
Sometimes in the darkness, as he nursed, his mother held him close to her broken heart as tears rolled down her cheeks and to his would often drop.
She thought about the days and weeks and years ahead and how the darkness for him would never stop.
A few years passed and the baby grew into a young child.
He couldn’t play a lot of the games other children played and run wild.
He would often sit by himself as he listened to their laughter and chatter,
There were a lot of things they seemed excited about which to him didn’t really matter.
The time came that the young child grew up and became a man,
And his handicap forced him to beg for a living as he pleaded with passersby to drop a coin in his can.
The darkness in which he lived made the days seem so long and such a bore,
And he sometimes shivered in the cold winter’s gale as it found its way through the holes in the rags he wore.
Until now in our story we’ve just been imagining how it might have been,
For the little boy who was born blind as he grew up to be a man,
But what we now say about him we know is true;
The story’s in the Bible in John chapter nine where it can be read by me and you.
It was ordained before the world was formed that Jesus would pass that way and hear the beggar’s cries,
And He spat on the ground, stooped down and made clay and put it on the blind man’s eyes.
He told him to go to the pool of Siloam and wash the clay away;
He did as Jesus said and suddenly the blind man was no longer blind; for the first time he could see as he walked away from the pool that day.
As tragic as it is for one not to have their physical sight,
It’s a far greater tragedy to be spiritually blind and walk through each day in sin’s dark night.
At least the physically blind know they’re blind and can learn to read Braille and get a seeing-eye dog to help them cope.
But the spiritually blind don’t know they’re blind and, if they’re never saved, for their everlasting soul there is no hope.
Every man since Adam is born spiritually blind, doomed to darkness forever;
Jesus said the god of this world has blinded man’s eyes and he cannot see his need of God or his need for a savior.
It’s up to you and me who’ve been taken to Jesus by others where we received our sight,
To likewise share with those around us that they too may be rescued from the darkness of their spiritually blind plight.
We should regard it a high honor and privilege, not a burden, the lost to help Jesus to know;
As we see God’s beauty with our spiritual eyes everywhere we go.
Even the physically blind can be made to see with their spiritual eyes and find,
That we, the saved, can be used by God, through whom he performs miracles, helping those to see who, like ourselves, were spiritually born blind.
