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^{1 -2} Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?" ^{3 -5}Jesus said, "You're asking the wrong question. You're looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world's Light."

John 9

It's not for us to ask who it is to blame for all the things wrong with us or the world. We can go for years and years blaming each other and cursing God for all the things that have gone wrong in our lives. But does that lead us anywhere?? Does it really give us an answer? Is there any satisfaction in blaming someone for the things that haven't gone our way in our lives or other people's lives? Jesus says that what we should do is look to God for help. Instead of looking for someone to blame, we should be looking to what God can do in our lives. We should be looking at how He can heal us and redeem us from our failures and shame. And as Christians, we should be working "energetically" for God, bringing home as many people to Him as we possibly can so that they don't have to be caught in this life of blaming and searching and get in on the life of healing and redemption.

³⁹Jesus then said, "I came into the world to bring everything into the clear light of day, making all the distinctions clear, so that those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind." ⁴⁰Some Pharisees overheard him and said, "Does that mean you're calling us blind?" ⁴¹Jesus said, "If you were really blind, you would be blameless, but since you claim to see everything so well, you're accountable for every fault and failure."

John 9

This is after Jesus came to the man that the Pharisees threw out on the street after the man told them again and again that Jesus was the one who healed him. Back then, the preaching of the cross and of Jesus as the messiah was seen as folly and stupid. Anyone who believed in this would be considered "blind" or someone being taken advantage of because it wasn't what the Jews believed. Paul writes about this in 1 Corinthians.

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For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.

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Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

to the world, the cross, God's message, Jesus Christ, is silliness. it doesn't make any sense what-so-ever. but for us, as Christians who firmly believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, it makes perfect sense. because what the world considers as wisdom is foolishness compared to God's wisdom, He ends up using the foolishness to glorify His name and bring people back to Him. His foolishness is still wiser than men's wisdom, and His weakness is still stronger than men's strength. going back to John, the world calls us "blind" all the time. how could we possibly believe in something so ridiculous, something so ludicrous? and Jesus says, "...those who have never seen will see, and those who have made a great pretense of seeing will be exposed as blind." John 9:39. those who are "blind" will see the glory of God, and those who think they know everything there is to know about life and God are revealed to be missing out on God the entire time. at the very last part of the verse, Jesus says, "If you were really blind, you would be blameless, but since you claim to see everything so well, you're accountable for every fault and failure." let us be "blind" and blameless. i'd rather follow God and be called foolish, stupid, and "blind" by the world and be considered blameless before the Judge than be called wise by the world and then be held for every failure and sin that i've committed against God in the end. the world will judge us but we know who the real Judge is. let's do our best to care most about what God thinks of us!!