It seems that the blind men healed in the synoptic gospels of Matthew and Mark and Luke 'regained' their sight....for one at first saw men....as trees....walking....and Bartimaeus was made...."well"....but the man in the ninth chapter of the gospel of John....the gospel that focused on Christ's divinity....was blind from birth!
Ponder this scenario with me for a few moments if you would....a man....or a woman....was raised in the church....faithfully attending throughout their youth....but maybe they go off to college and lose that faithful attendance....or not attend at all....time passes.....they get married and have a family....see the futility of life....and decide to return to God....once again faithfully attending church....maybe even becoming an officer or a Bible Study teacher....or maybe even a pastor?
My own experience was this. I attended church fairly faithfully in my youth.....and even into my time in the army....and college....but I was still....as everyone is....blind from birth to Jesus Christ....and to my myself. Long story short....I was born again....and the earth shook....and the Bible came alive....and I had to tell people....but I never....even through valleys and taking the wrong path and times of despair and finding myself too at home in Vanity Fair....I never lost the knowledge of the immeasurable grace....and only temporarily lost the unimaginable joy....of knowing that I was once dead....but that I was now alive!
Simply as an exercise in examining ourselves as we should do....I would ask you to consider....to double-check....that you may not have only regained the sight you once had....that you were only made 'well' once again....but with a sight that is not regeneration....or being born again....or leading to eternal life? Hopefully you'll just say....'Yes....I know what you mean....and I was born again"....but if not....if the born again part has always dismayed you....take heart....for it is right there before your blind eyes....for you will be given sight for the first time....if you but go to Him even now....for He turns no one away.
