Be still and know

We studied John Chapter 9 last
night in our Home Group.  The chapter is
all about Jesus healing the blind man who was blind from birth.  His disciples ask Him who sinned…did he sin
or did his parents?

I was struck by the assumption of
guilt.  How often do I assume the origin
of someone’s sin, pain, or ill behavior when all along God has allowed “the blindness”
for HIS glory to be seen?  And how often
do I need to assign blame?  Whose fault
is it?  Or how often do I feel the need
to figure it out?  Is that really my
job? 

I have a friend who believes that “figuring
things out” is one our greatest unrecognized and unconfessed sins.  She believes that when we try to figure
things out we are playing God.  I think
she’s onto something.  Isn’t our job to
still our hearts to hear God’s voice, not to intellectualize or analyze?  “Be still and know that I am God.”  Psalm 46:10

How often is the glory of God seen
in people our world considers “abnormal”? 
The child with Down syndrome or the “slow” child.  The mother in the nursing home.  The sick father-in-law.  I wonder how many children have been aborted
that we would have seen the glory of God through?  What have we missed?

How much do we miss because we are
seeing with our physical eyes instead of our spiritual eyes?  When I take my eyes off of Jesus and place
them on my circumstances my life either seems really wonderful or dreadfully
bleak.  The only consistency comes in
focusing on Christ.

“Lord, help me to see as the blind
man did, with spiritual eyes.”

IN HIM

Julie