Saturday September 3, 2022
Theme: “Obedience precedes divine blessings»
Text: John 9:1-7
1. Jesus saw, in passing, a man blind from birth. 2. His disciples asked him this question: Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 3. Jesus answered: It is not that he or his parents sinned; but it is so that the works of God may be manifested in him. 4. I must do, 5. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6. After saying this, he spat on the ground, and made mud with his saliva. Then he applied this mud to the eyes of the blind man, 7. and said to him: Go, and wash yourself in the reservoir of Siloam (name which means sent). He went there, washed, and returned seeing clearly.
Let's remember:
Jesus' obedience is the key to his success. The apostle Paul describes it better in chapter 2 of his epistle to the Philippians also called the hymn to the Philippians which describes the abasement and exaltation of Christ. God lifts up the humble. To refuse to lower oneself is to accept one's fall. While it was day, Jesus was eager to do the works of him who had sent him; because in the night no one can work. Jesus was thus unfolding the chronogram that His Father had submitted to Him. By his obedience he achieved the redemption of mankind lost in sin. Jesus had humbled himself, making himself obedient unto death, even unto death on the cross. As a reward, God exalted him in a sovereign way, and gave him the name which is above every name, that every knee should bow before Him, and every tongue confess that He is Lord, to the glory of God the Dad. Obedience excludes murmurings, hesitations, reasonings… Let us be obedient and we will shine like torches in the midst of this perverse and corrupt generation. Excellent Saturday in obedience. Amen Alain Louz.-
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