ECWA Daily Manna for the Year 2023

SATURDAY, 27 MAY 2023

TEXT: John 9:13-23

13. The brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

14. The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

15. So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

16. Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

17. Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” “He’s a prophet,” he said.

18. The Jews did not believe this about him-that he was blind and received sight-until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

19. They asked them, “Is this your son, [the one] you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

20. “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.

21. “But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

22. His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

23. This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

(Holmans CS Translation Holy Bible)

TOPIC: NOT BY HUMAN WAY OF THINKING

When Jesus healed the man born blind, it became the talk of the town. Some people wondered how a man born blind could be healed by Jesus whom they did not believes was the Messiah.

Not satisfied by the answer of the healed man, they went ahead to ask his parents who, for fear of what could be done to them, requested them to ask their son because he was old enough to speak for himself.

There are many people who have been in the church for a long time but up till now do not believe in the power of Jesus Christ. They rationalize that their brains would give them the necessary answers to the nagging questions of life.

But, unfortunately, spiritual issues cannot be handled by human reasoning, it can only be done by faith.

QUESTION: Do you know that your human way of thinking will not allow you understand spiritual matters?

PRAYER: Oh Lord, do not allow my human wisdom, knowledge and understanding block me from understanding You. Amen.