One thing I know: that though I was
blind, now I see. John 9:25
What is
the beginning of the Christian life? It is a seeing. It must be a seeing. The
very logic of things demands that it shall be a seeing; for this reason – that
the whole of the Christian life is to be a progressive movement along one line,
to one end. That line and that end is Christ. That was the issue with the man
born blind in John 9. You will remember how, after they cast him out, Jesus
found him, and said to him, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?"
and the man answered and said, "And who is He, Lord, that I may believe on
Him?" Jesus said unto him, "Thou hast both seen Him and He it is That
speaketh with thee." And he said, "Lord, I believe." And he
worshiped Him. The issue of spiritual sight is the recognition of the Lord
Jesus, and it is going to be that all the way through from start to finish.
We may
say that our salvation was a matter of seeing ourselves as sinners. But had it
been left there it would have been a poor lookout for us. No, the whole matter
is summed up into seeing Jesus; and when you really see Jesus, what happens?
What happened to Saul of Tarsus? Well, a whole lot of things happened, and
mighty things which nothing else would have accomplished. You would never have
argued Saul of Tarsus into Christianity; you would never have frightened him
into Christianity; you would never have either reasoned or emotionalized him
into being a Christian. To get that man out of Judaism needed something more
than could have been found on this earth. But he saw Jesus of Nazareth, and
that did it. He is out, he is an emancipated man, he has seen.
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