God Uses the Common; the Ordinary for His Service (John 9) – A daily devotional.

As Jesus departed the Temple, He passed a blind man who became the central figure of a theological showdown between Jesus and His enemies (John 9). With no social or welfare programs, the blind were dependent on family and charity, and often reduced to begging. Seeing the blind man, the disciples: “Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” (John 9:2). Jesus’ answer must have stunned the disciples, for He stated, “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (9:3).