While I Was Reading Sunday- John 9

Reading this account of blindness got me thinking. This young man, blind from birth, receives a miracle by the hand of a man called Jesus. 

  John 9:11 "He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight." This miracle uncovers other blindness and becomes quite a sensation.

    The disciples of Jesus were blind as to why handicaps afflict mortal man.
John 9:2 "And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?"
    The Pharisees were blinded by their dogmatic keeping of the Law.

    John 9:16 "Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them."

   His parents chose blindness to protect their place in Jewish society.

   John 9:20 "His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:  But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself."

  I asked for a volunteer in seminary on Friday, one who would choose to be blindfolded for half the class. He was at the mercy of those who would tell him where to walk and where to sit. He became quite docile and compliant to accommodate his handicap. What a relief to be able to act for himself. The principle that resonated with me is that agency requires sight, and sight is given through the mercy and atonement of Jesus Christ.
  John 9:39 "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."
   Where am I still blind to see?