Reflect The Purposes Of Christmas #3 - "(To Proclaim) Recovery Of Sight" Series

But what I want to stress here is that God is not necessarily punishing you for your sins, if you have a physical infirmity. If you feel like you are under God’s curse, let me assure you that God loves you – so much that He sent His Son to be under the curse of death for you.

Job did not understand his sufferings. He did nothing to bring them on. And he had no idea that his sufferings were nothing more than the devil trying to make Job curse God. But even after his complaining, he kept his integrity before God, because even if he didn’t understand his sufferings, he understood who controlled the universe.

Back to the story. I want to mention that it would be easy to look at these verses here and think that God had made this man blind to let Jesus show off. But that’s just not the case.

“The man was not blinded just so God could show off. He sent Jesus to do works of healing in order to show His glory.” (NIV APP. COMMT)

God used the opportunity of the blind man’s presence to display His awesome healing power, which leads me to the second lesson we learn from Jesus’ healing of this man,…

2. Physical blindness can be cured by Jesus.

God was not limited to healing back in Jesus’ day. He can and He does heal today. He is not in the habit of doing it supernaturally all the time, but that doesn’t mean He can’t!

We can pray for healing today. We can, and should pray that God will intervene and act to bring about physical healing to those who need it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, I want to encourage you to do it more often and more fervently.

Believe that God is just as powerful today as He was when He parted the Red Sea, and when He healed the blind man here in our Bible passage.

The Bible says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He can heal supernaturally, and He will if we pray, and if He decides that it will be to our benefit and His glory to do so.

Did you hear that? God can heal, but we have no right to demand healing from God. He doesn’t owe anybody anything.

Ask and ask fervently, trusting that He has the ability, and that if He so wills, He will do it.

But keep in mind that His glory might be better displayed in you by not healing you this side of heaven.

That healing might take place only after you leave this earth. But that’s His call, not yours or mine.

One thing we would do well to grasp is that more often God chooses to heal us through such people as medical professionals.

Every now and again I think it would be great to live back in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s.

Life was so much simpler then – traffic wasn’t a hassle, people were generally much more trusting, you didn’t have lock the doors on your horse when you went into the barber shop. You get the idea.

But then I think about how primitive medical technology was back then. God has allowed mankind to advance medical technology beyond the wildest dreams of our grandparents.

Entire diseases have been wiped out, and new medicines and preventative measures are being discovered all the time.