The Gospel for this Sunday speaks to us about the man born blind. Jesus Christ came to “open the eyes” of our faith. We were born blind—in sin—and He has opened up the horizon of a new life for us. That is true. However, that constitutes a psychological interpretation—one that gives the impression that the healing of the blind man serves merely to explain our own life’s miseries and sin: that we sin because we cannot see. This is not the case. For over sixty years, there have been attempts to demonstrate that Jesus is not God, but simply a man. Yet Jesus performed a tremendous miracle. He made mud using His own saliva, smeared it onto the blind man’s eyes, and then sent him to wash in a pool. Thus, even if we are blinded by sin, the Lord Jesus will not perform that specific act upon us. The spiritual blindness that prevents us from seeing our own sin certainly exists; however, the blindness of the man in the Gospel was physical. Jesus is God, for only God performs miracles.
Blessings to you on this Fourth Sunday of Lent.
