TO THE GLORY OF GOD

Let's begin, shall we? Many times in our lives, we wonder why things happen the way they do. Most things happen because of the choices we make, but some things happen because God intended them to, for His glory. It’s a doggone shame that even in these instances, many times we are so ‘blinded’ by the world, that we fail to ‘see’ God’s purpose. You’ll ‘see’ what I mean when you sojourn along in this Glory Bible verses journey about giving the glory to God story.

One day Jesus saw a man who was blind from his birth, and His disciples asked Him, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day, the night comes, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

When he had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) Let's take a lil Glory Bible verses field trip ... Remember the pool at Bethesda in our last story? Well, this pool is on the South side of the Temple. The blind man went his way, washed and gained his sight. The neighbors and those which before had known that the man was blind, said, Isn’t this the man that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He looks like him, but the man said, I am he. So they asked him, How were your eyes opened?

As you can see most wanted to attribute the healing to the Glory of God, but some doubted. He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

Then they said to him, Where is he? He answered, I don’t know. So they brought him to the Pharisees and it was the Sabbath day when Jesus healed him. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He told them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and now I see. Some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God, because he doesn’t observe the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?

The To God be the Glory Bible verses story tells us that there was a division among them. They asked the blind man again, What do you say about him, that he has opened your eyes? He said, He is a Prophet.

But the Jews didn’t believe that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of the man, and they asked them, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? His parents answered them, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind, but by what means he now sees, we don’t know, or who has opened his eyes. He is of age, ask him, he will speak for himself. His parents said this, because they feared the Jews, because the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue, so his parents said, He is of age, ask him.

Again, they called the man that was blind, and said to him, attribute this miracle to the Glory of God. Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. He answered and said, Whether He be a sinner or no, I don’t know: but one thing I know, that I was blind, and now I see. They asked him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear, why do you want to hear it again? Do you wish to be His disciples?

We see in this Glory Bible verses story that they knew that the Glory of God was involved but did not want to give Jesus any credit. Back to the story ... Then they reviled him, and said, You are His disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this fellow, we don’t know where He’s from. The man said to them, Why here is an amazing thing, that you don’t know where He’s from, and yet He has opened my eyes! Now we know that God doesn’t hear sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and does His will, him He hears. Since the world began no man has opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, He could do nothing. The Pharisees answered him, You were altogether born in sins, and you’re trying to teach us? And they cast him out.

Then, in this Glory Bible verses story, Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? He asked, Who is He, Lord, that I might believe in Him? Jesus said to him, You have both seen Him, and it is He that talks with you now. And the man said, Lord, I believe. And He worshiped Him. Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that they which are blind might see; and that they which see might be made blind. You know by the words and deeds of Jesus, that He performed this miracle to the Glory of God.

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and asked Jesus, Are we blind also? Jesus answered them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

How many times during his life do you think that man wondered why he was born blind? God used him in this Glory Bible verses story as a tool to perform a miracle on him to the Glory of God. God intended for Him to be blind for that very moment, to show His power. Just think, if that man had his sight since birth, he may never have believed in Jesus, because the world blinds many people to the truth.