Many of us attended the memorial service for Logan Kubiak who died of leukemia just after his fifth birthday. Some of us are facing other significant trials in our lives. We often want to ask, “Why?” “Why did God allow this to happen to me (or to them).
This question is addressed in John 9 when Jesus’ disciples ask him why a man had been born blind. Their premise was that someone must have done something wrong – either the man or his parents. Jesus refutes their false reasoning and explains that the man’s blindness was not due to personal sin, but was for the glory of God.
Because we live in a fallen world, tragedies happen. People today continue to wrongly believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people (karma). Believers recognize that God is at work even in our suffering.
Jesus came into the world to reverse the effects of the curse. His healing of the blind man is a sign of the work He has come to do. Where Jesus is present the curse is reversed. His first coming was a partial and temporary intrusion of God’s kingdom on the earth. When he comes again there will be no more curse – no more blindness, no more leukemia, no more death and no more tears.
SERMON ACTIVITY
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