Dirty, rotten fault-finding! Why do we look for faults in others to tear them down and build ourselves up? We criticize each other, other families, churches, parties and nations. Some believers even criticize the sick as having a sin or not enough faith to be healed. That’s exactly what happened in John 9:1-41. Is sickness a punishment for some hidden sin? Or is the fact that we haven’t been healed a sign of a lack of faith as some perversely claim? Or did the parents sin and pass on a disease as a result? The roads to condemnation are as varied as the imagination of the critic. How should we look upon the sick? Jesus first thought was to lift the man up, not put him down. And then the religious criticized him for healing on the Sabbath. Sigh!
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