MORNING MEDITATION

“In God’s Time!”

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“In God’s Time!”(Jn.9:1-17).
Today’s text is about the Lord Jesus healing a man born blind. While there is so much to be gleaned from the text that can be more rewarding, I prefer we limit ourselves to the Sabbath debacle between the Lord Jesus Christ and the Pharisees since it is this controversy that is central to this week’s meditations.
I admire the Rev Foncham Patrick for his keen interest in herbal medicines and healing. This reminds me that Luke the Evangelist was a physician. There is a blend of tradi-naturo-spiritual healing which was also practiced by the Lord Jesus Christ. In our text the Lord spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes, and asked him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. The man did this and gained his sight. “The day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.”
Evidently hospitals did not exist in the time of Jesus, but there must have existed herbal healing homes. I’m just wondering how the Pharisees would have interpreted the Sabbath injunction with regard to in-patients in a hospital. What do we do with those in-patients and out-patients whose wounds have to be cleaned daily? How about the patients who have to be given medicines, put on drips and blood transfusion?
“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, and his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning…;” even on Sabbath days. We should reach out to those who need us anytime, anyday in the same way that God reaches out to us irrespective of which day it is.
God’s Kairos (right time) may come on a Sabbath as it was with the blind man whose sight was restored on the Sabbath.
The disciples of Jesus who shared the popular Jewish worldview that sickness was punishment for sin asked the Lord, “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” The Lord Jesus told them it was not about the issue of sin. It was God’s “kairos time.” “This happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” The light shines even on the Sabbath.
With God things happen at the right time (Kairos); notwithstanding whether it is a Sabbath because “Mercy stands above law!”
Prayer: Thank you LORD for reaching out to me 24/24, 7/7, in season, and out of season. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.

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