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Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth.
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His disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?"
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Jesus said, "You're asking the wrong question. You're looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do.
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We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over.
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For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world's Light."
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He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man's eyes,
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and said, "Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "Sent"). The man went and washed - and saw.
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Soon the town was buzzing. His relatives and those who year after year had seen him as a blind man begging were saying, "Why, isn't this the man we knew, who sat here and begged?"
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.