John 9: 38 “Master, I believe,” the man said, and worshiped him.
This is near the end of the story of the blind beggar. Jesus healed him on the Sabbath, and the church leaders are saying that means he doesn't follow God. They try to intimidate him and his parents into saying that Jesus didn't cure a man who was blind from birth. They succeed in cowing the parents, but the formerly blind man won't back down. Jesus came to him a second time, and he asked the man if he believed that Jesus was the Son of Man. This is his response.
It's just amazing that leaders of a church are the last to see God's son for who he is. They may not worship Baal or a golden calf, but they sure don't connect with God. Their lives have been a waste of time at the best. How sad to live your life guided by a church, and to yet be unable or unwilling to follow its most basic precepts. The blind man has lived a life of begging, of being pitied or blamed for sins he never committed. But he knows the truth when he sees it.
Prayer: I don't want to be like these church people of Jesus's time, Lord. Help me to see the truth about Your will for me. I believe, and I worship You. I don't want anything else in my life to be more important than that.
Amen
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