John 9:35-41 King James Version (KJV)

“Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?³⁶ He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?³⁷ And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.³⁸ And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.³⁹ And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.⁴⁰ And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?⁴¹ Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

I love it when something new leaps out from scripture.  I find this verse so interesting.   It is a place where the Lord clarifies what is sin and what is weakness, the difference in how He responds and sees both.

The context of my thinking.   I have so many discussions in my life regarding God’s will and healing.   For me, reading the scriptures literally, leaves only one interpretation.  God promised healing to anyone who sought Him for it, and while we can praise HIm for healing that takes weeks and months and even years, the healing He did on earth was almost always instant and complete (the few exceptions are not even necessary exceptions as an exact timeframe is vague but within a day in these cases like the lepers who were healed as they went).

Here is the beauty of this verse, if I am blind, and know that I am blind and cannot see, and I seek Jesus, well then, there is this great promise in here.    “I am come into this world, that they which see not might see”.   I believe we can approach God with our human limitation like the man whose child had epilepsy and say honestly, I believe, but help me with me unbelief (Mark 9:24) and look forward to this promise being fulfilled.    Therefore, if we are struggling to see the fulfillment of the full promise of wholeness and healing, we can just go as the blind, “Dear Papa, I know your Word says that by Jesus stripes I was healed (1Peter 2:24), but I do not see this in my own body, I am unable to see and understand, please help me, in Jesus Christ name to see your Word and promise fulfilled.  Praise you that you came to help me in my human weakness”

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

On the flip side, this is a warning about adding to the Word of God.    Sometimes to comfort ourselves or others, we come up with reasons, reasons that are not mentioned in the Bible but that we have come to believe through teaching, our own reasoning or our experience.  Here is the snare of the pharisee mindset.   And Jesus point-blank calls this sin.  We claim that we can see when at best we are guessing and at worst we are outright calling God a liar when our words communicate to others that the Lord failed to do what He has promised.

Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

I believe the Lord has provided for all of our human weakness when we approach with humility and as a little child.

We can learn from HIs disciples in this too.  Notice they didn’t come up with their own explanation why  the little boy wasn’t healed but simply asked their Teacher to explain.  “Why couldn’t we do it?” Mark 9:28…  It turns out the issue was entirely theirs, unbelief of the disciples was the root issue.  There is no condemnation when we go to God with our inability, only willingness on HIs part to teach us and show us how to over come these things in His strength and wisdom and power.

Mark 16 tells us we are equipped to lay hands on the sick and to cast out devils. Luke 9 and 10 tell us that the apostles were sent out, equipped to heal all diseases and to cast out all demons.  Brothers and sisters, we have been commissioned to preach the Gospel and Heal THE sick.   Let us obey and seek the Lord diligently to fulfill the work He has assigned to us with joy and confident expectation that He who has commissioned us will not fail to equip us to complete the work.

Matthew 6:33

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. “

Even in this we are faithfully seeking the Kingdom of God.    Jesus is ” the Way, the Truth and the Life(John 14:6), and for Him the healing of the sick, was a core and integral part of expressing and revealing the Kingdom. and of His Father’s “will being done on earth as it is in heaven” (Luke 11:2) .. That we may faithfully follow Him and come to the place in our lives that we can say as He said “I only do what I see my Father doing in Heaven”  (John 5:19)