A poem to help you ponder John 9:1-41

“The Sight Light Brings”

written by Dwayne Sheridan

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“I was, thrown out of the synagogue today

Because I, was born blind but now I see

In my Healer, I now believe

Despite the questions, of Sightless Pharisees

Was it for wrongs my folks had done?

Or for the sins of this here son?

That it would take this long for me

To use my eyes, why was this to be?

Sometimes the ones who know the most

See right through truth, like a ghost

Others, blind, receive their sight

To behold the works of Christ

This is an amazing thing!

behold!

The sight Light brings.

A second time they called me in

To testify of what happened

They asked my parents “Was it true?”

“He’s of age, why don’t you have, him tell you.”

Well, Pharisees, I am amazed

That you don’t know from whence he came

You’ve seen his works, it must be true

Do you wish to be, his disciples too?

Sometimes the ones who know the most

See right through truth, like a ghost

Others, blind, receive their sight

To behold the works of Christ

This is an amazing thing!

behold!

The sight Light brings.

He put mud upon my eyes

Of spit and dirt made on the ground

I washed it off,

my sight was found

People marveled, is it he?

Though born blind, I could now see

A beggar changed,

why was it me?

His followers, they wondered, too.

What brought this man this misfortune?

Family sin or his own vice?

What caused this man, to pay such a great price?

So the, works of God might be displayed

The reason that the Healer gave

Former blind worships in faith

The Phari-see, their guilt remains

Why, this IS an amazing thing!

Sometimes the ones who know the most

See right through truth, like a ghost

Others, blind, receive their sight

To behold the works of Christ

This is an amazing thing!

behold!

The sight Light brings.”

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