Our Point of Need

Our Point of Need

Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,” So he went and washed, and came back seeing.

John 9:1-7

Christ went about doing good. As He did, He encountered people of every stripe and variety. The passage before us is an illustration of one of many cases. What is interesting to consider is how many people Christ encountered whose issues defined them. The Scripture refers to this man only as, ‘the man born blind.’ There are many others whom the Scripture defines similarly. The lame man at the pool of Bethesda, the ten lepers, the woman with the issue of blood, and the Maniac of Gadara, are all people whose issues defined them. We only identify them by these issues. What is worth our time to consider, is that Christ met each of these people at the very point of their defining issue. Christ consistently gets to the heart of the real matter. He healed the lame man, cleansed the lepers, raised the dead, and opened the eyes of the man born blind. So Christ does with us. Christ meets us at the point of our defining issue. We are liars, and He addresses our lying. We are hateful, and He addresses our hatefulness. We are gossips and He addresses our gossiping character. Christ is well aware of our defining issues. Let us rejoice that He is so Gracious as to address the very things that hinder us most in our spiritual life. We have a Savior Who will not fail to address the things in our life which keep us from being all that He intends for us to be. We can have great confidence in Him and in His good will toward us.

Our most Holy and Wise Savior,
we praise You that You understand us in every detail.
We rejoice that You meet us at our point of need
and that You move to resolve the issues
which we could never resolve ourselves.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning