Journey through John 9:1-2

Good Morning Church Family – Journey Through John

Read John 9:1-2
 
Devo Thought: Have you found yourself looking at someone else’s situation and thinking I wonder what they did to bring this on themselves? Often, people who find themselves in difficult situations have been the source of that difficulty. However, there are just as many times that people end up in challenging circumstances that have nothing to do with them. The disciples see this man born blind and ask the question aloud that many of us have internally. “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” This is the same question that Job’s friends asked him when his suffering came upon him. They asked him over and over again, “Job, what did you do that brought this calamity on you?” Too often, we worry about the source of someone else’s trouble rather than offering them the God who can heal them, the God who can sustain them through it. Surely, you know people in your life who seem like they have a lot of trouble in their lives. Stop worrying about whether they are the source of their trouble. God will deal with that if that is the case. Instead, let us see what we can do to help them. Let us offer them the grace of God rather than our assumptions.
 
Let us ask God to help us see people as possible objects of God’s love and grace rather than assuming they are objects of his condemnation.