The disciples are not the only ones who ask questions of God. It’s not the questions we ask of God that get us in trouble. It’s when we think we already know the answer so we don’t ask the question, or when we answer the question from our human reasoning, that we hinder our own souls. This is what happened in John 9 regarding a man who was born blind. It seemed obvious to wonder whose sin caused the son to be born blind—the man or the parents. To a first century Jewish mind, the fact that a baby was born blind was a sign of God’s punishment for sin. Jesus offers a divine explanation for the man’s blindness. He answered: I t was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one...
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