{"id":19388,"date":"2022-06-02T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/urc\/urc-daily-devotion-thursday-2nd-june-2022-dorothy-curtis"},"modified":"2022-06-02T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T05:15:00","slug":"urc-daily-devotion-thursday-2nd-june-2022-dorothy-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/urc-daily-devotion-thursday-2nd-june-2022-dorothy-curtis\/","title":{"rendered":"URC Daily Devotion Thursday 2nd June 2022 Dorothy Curtis"},"content":{"rendered":"

2nd June 2022 <\/strong>St John 9: 1 – 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, \u2018Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?\u2019  Jesus answered, \u2018Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God\u2019s 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.\u2019  When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man\u2019s eyes,  saying to him, \u2018Go, wash in the pool of Siloam\u2019 (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.  The neighbours and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, \u2018Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?\u2019 
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Some were saying, \u2018It is he.\u2019 Others were saying, \u2018No, but it is someone like him.\u2019 He kept saying, \u2018I am the man.\u2019  But they kept asking him, \u2018Then how were your eyes opened?\u2019  He answered, \u2018The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, \u201cGo to Siloam and wash.\u201d Then I went and washed and received my sight.\u2019  They said to him, \u2018Where is he?\u2019 He said, \u2018I do not know.\u2019<\/p>\n

Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n

How easily we complicate things. Jesus sees a man born blind and an opportunity to do him a good turn – and glorify God. The disciples launch into a theological discussion about the sin\/suffering connection. But Jesus isn\u2019t having any of it. And then he goes and heals the man using mud and spit – which was a common treatment in those days. Not complicated. He instructs the man to go and wash it off in the Pool of Siloam and off the man pops, and comes back able to see. Simples. Simple obedience, simple result. But again the bystanders seem intent on complicating everything, asking questions. More brownie points for the ex-blind man for simply saying \u2018I don\u2019t know\u2019 – sometimes the hardest thing of all to admit.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve had a global pandemic, a war in Ukraine with pictures on our TV screens the like of which we had hoped had gone away with the end of the Second World War.  We\u2019ve seen people doing good things – quite simply helping where they could. And we\u2019ve seen other people adding complications which were obstacles in the way of desperate and suffering people.<\/p>\n

And I remember Jesus\u2019s instructions to his disciples: \u2018Love one another, and your neighbour as yourself.\u2019 Simple.<\/p>\n

Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Jesus,<\/p>\n

Forgive us for our lack of obedience to your command to love our neighbours. Help us do the simple things we can and thereby shine your light into the darkness. <\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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2nd June 2022 St John 9: 1 – 12 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, \u2018Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?\u2019  Jesus answered, \u2018Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God\u2019s works might be … <\/p>\n

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