Come Home Seeing

John, 9-11  

“’As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’ Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. ‘Go,’ he told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.”

John 9:4-7

What is the meaning of “day,” “night,” “darkness,” and “light” in this parable and miracle of Jesus?

The “day” is the age of grace we are still living in where there is work to be done in the Father’s mission to reconcile all things to himself through Christ. This gospel of salvation through Christ points to Jesus as the light of the world. All of us were born spiritually blind, like the man Jesus healed. All of us require cleansing at the ‘Pool of Siloam’ for our sin. All of us are then sent to share with our community the good news that we can now see, and sight is possible through Christ.

Who are we in this story?

What is Jesus inviting us to realize or do?

“Lord Jesus, you are the light of the world and the light inside of me, for your glory.”