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Gospel Lesson for the
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March 2, 2008
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As he walked along,
he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned,
this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Jesus answered,
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's
works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me
while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in
the world, I am the light of the world."
When he had said
this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud
on the man's eyes, saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which
means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.
The neighbors and
those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man
who used to sit and beg?"
Some were saying,
"It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him." He kept
saying, "I am the man."
--- John 9:1-9
.
Fiber
Optic
.
“As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
---
John 9:5
When I behold some tragic
circumstance,
I have a choice:
In philosophical
detachment,
I can rationalize its
cause.
Or I can get caught up
in sadness and despair.
Or if I have the
credentials
I can diagnose and
prescribe.
Or I can toss a coin and
forget.
Or I can become the
instrument
by which God acts and is
glorified.
Jesus dismissed other
alternatives
and chose the latter one.
With dirt and spit, he
made a poultice
to place upon a blind man’s eyes.
(In Jesus hands, mud can
be medication.)
And acting in obedient
faith,
the blind man bathed in
Siloam’s waters
and came forth with his
sight renewed.
Now since as far as I can
tell,
my spit holds no medicinal
value,
I must content myself to
being
the conduit of the Light
that he offers and that he
is.
The difference between
Jesus and me
is that he’s the source of
Light;
I am only the optical
fiber
that carries and conducts
the Light.
So by my witness and my
life
I shall be that optical
fiber
carrying the Light of
Christ
into the darkened corners
of my world.
Taking whatever’s at hand,
just ordinary things like
spit and dirt,
and mixing it with love,
I will do what I can to
share that Light.
--- rvc
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