Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him.  The Pharisees asked the man all about it. 

So he told them, "He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!"

John 9:13-15 NLT

Ah the Sabbath.

Working on the Sabbath.

Jesus wasn't against the Sabbath, but he was against the systems and rules that had been developed so that people believed if they kept those, they'd be good enough for God. 

That they're own actions could save them. 

And in their passion to enforce the rules they created a society where a person born blind had to beg to survive.

I wonder what Jesus would have to say to me, to my church, to our culture...what he would say about those who remain on the margins, unseen, about systems that oppress, about injustice, about my self-salvation project, my striving to be enough.

May we, may I, allow Jesus to apply his mud to my face today, to sit with that, and to allow Him to give me new vision, new sight, to see His world, His people as He would have me see them today. 

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