The Healing of the Man Born Blind

John 9. The Healing of the Man Born Blind

A chart with three columns labeled “Pharisees,” “Blind Man,” and “Parents.” Each column has words or phrases from John 9:13–38 that show the spiritual blindness or spiritual sight of the Pharisees, the blind man, and the parents.

PHARISEES	BLIND MAN	PARENTS
He keepeth not the Sabbath day.	Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.	He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
How can a man that is such a sinner do such miracles?	Why herin is a marvelous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.	These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews:
We are Moses’ disciples.	Now we know that God heareth no sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
We know that God spak eunto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.	Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was blind.
Thou was all together born in sin, and dost thou teach us?	If this man was not of God, he could do nothing.

Physical blindness is often thought of as a difficult handicap in this life. Similarly, spiritual blindness can be a handicap of shorts, preventing us from seeing truth and light.

There are so many things in this world that can obstruct our view and cause spiritual blindness. Pride, unbelief, pornography, anger, worship of false idols, etc. these are just a few of the worldly things that can cover our eyes when we are not careful.

When we are spiritually blind, we wonder around lost in this world, tripping over hazard after hazard until we either fall into an everlasting pit, or call out for a guiding aid. Our Savior will reach out to us just as he did for Peter, after he lost sight of Jesus on the water and began to sink.

Like the blind man in the scriptures, we can recover our sight when we believe in the Lord and do as he commands. I know this to be true, because I have experienced it in my life. Before I was a member of the Church, I was a much younger man who was blind and lost in the world.

I was a liquor salesman; it was my job to supply the bars with my portfolio of alcohol. Another part of my job was to indulge in consumption, and I was very good at that. I was what you could call a functional alcoholic, drinking, smoking, using drugs, and being promiscuous. I let the things of the world blind me and it was just as I was sinking in to despair that a very special friend reach out to me and pulled me from the depth of my own destruction.

I was invited to church, and began to meet with the missionaries. Soon I quick my job, and found new employment. I gave up and forsake my vices and committed to baptism. I also got married and later sealed to the very person that saved me. My wife is one of my closest friends. She brought me to Christ and being blind, I asked to see. It took a lot of clay and a lot of washing, but it wasn’t long before I could see.

Like the blind man, my testimony has grown and continues to grow as it is challenged by other. Every time I bare it, I feel it grow stronger and stronger. And like the blind man, I know that Jesus was a prophet, and the Christ. I declare to all those that have ears to hear and eyes to see, that Jesus lives and that he loves us all. He is the Christ and the Savior of the world. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.