What are we doing about Christ?

Note: Read the full story of the healing of the man born blind in John 9.

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Jesus asked the man born blind whom He had healed, “Do you believe on the Son of God?”

The poor man answered, “Who is He, Lord, that I might believe on Him?”

Ignorance was the only thing that kept this man from believing. The Lord immediately took it away by saying, “You have both seen Him, and it is He who talks with you.”

Then the man said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped Him.

We are not in his state of ignorance. None of us can say, “Who is the Son of God, that we might believe on Him?” We heard since childhood that JESUS was the Son of God.

Though we have not seen Him, and though He has not talked with us, yet we know that He died for us, and that He is always living to plead on our behalf, if we come to God in His name.

The poor man did not know so much as this, when he said, “Lord, I believe.” Yet how hard-hearted and ungrateful we should deem him, if he had not believed in the One who had done so much for him!

He knew that every word his Healer uttered must be truth. Before he had seen Him he had loved Him, and had suffered for His sake; and when he did see Him, and when he knew who He was, he adored Him.

And what are we doing about Him?

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