When Jesus healed the man waiting by the stirred waters, He tells the man to sin no more so nothing worse happens to him. It makes it sound like his lameness was the result of sin. With the man born blind, Jesus specifically points out that there was no sin connected to it and that it was for God’s glory!

Don’t let anyone tell you that you are cursed or “opened a door” or that some ancestor must have sinned and caused your problems. You make sure you’re walking rightly with God. Sin can have consequences, but for the child of God, they are for your good! God is in control, and nothing gets to harm you. God may use your sin to allow Satan to operate in a limited way (like in Job) for God’s good purposes to be worked out in your life, which may include repentance. Eyes on Jesus, heart turned toward God.

Jesus says He came to give sight to the blind. Put that together with how the chapter ends. Jesus tells the Pharisees that if they were blind, they would have no guilt. What does that mean?

We saw in the Old Testament the sacrifices for unintentional sin. Intentional sin could end with people dying. Unintentional sin was covered by the sacrifices. God didn’t hold them accountable for doing things unknowingly or in ignorance of what was right.

But Jesus came to make blind eyes see. He will show us our sin. Then we must choose to repent and go His way. He will keep revealing to us His ways and how we’ve gone our own ways. We want Him to do that. We want to be transformed, glory to glory, into the image of Christ. We want to shine His radiant glory into the world.

No one is at the end of their spiritual journey because none of us are perfectly like Jesus. There will always be more beauty to learn about God, which reveals the nothingness and ickiness of self!