January
27
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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