May 9, 2013 Receiving Sight
Thursday May 9, 2013
When the blind man was questioned by the Pharisees as to how Jesus healed him he told them, but that did not satisfy them. They questioned him again, perhaps hoping he would change his story and enable them to accuse him of lying.
Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?” (John 9:26-27 NIV)
..For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. (John 5:36-40)
The Pharisees thought they knew the scriptures but their minds were spiritually blind, they just could not see what was written in the law and the prophets about Jesus. They were actually worse off that the man who had been born physically blind. He had met Jesus and received his physical sight. They had met Jesus several times but did not receive Him as the one of whom the law and the prophets spoke. They remained spiritually blind because they refused to believe the very scriptures that testified of Jesus.
Have you ever been in that place where you have heard about Jesus and the things he has done for you and for others yet you refuse to believe? Jesus would say to you also “search the scriptures” and “Come to me and find life.” Peter, James, and John were witnesses to the transfiguration of Jesus on a high mountain. Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus. Peter, knowing no better, tried to put Jesus in equal status with Moses and Elijah, two prophets, but God the Father would have none of it. Following is one of the testimonies in scripture of this occurrence. The Jewish leaders should have listened to this account, and so should we. A
fter six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” (Mark 9:2-7 NIV)
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