"So he went away, washed, and came back seeing." (John 9:7).

The Bible tells us about a man who had been blind from birth.

"As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. The disciples asked him, "Teacher, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming when no one 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 with the spittle. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam"(which is translated, "Sent.")

"So he went and washed and came back seeing." (John 9:1-7)

Sometimes we wonder why the Lord allows sickness, distress, and death?

The Lord allows sickness and pain in our lives to draw us closer to Him.

To open our eyes. Because sometimes pain and suffering are the only way for God to speak to us and for us to hear Him.

The Lord allows sickness so that His name may be glorified through us. Sometimes He allows sickness and fatigue as a result of sin. This does not mean that every sick person is the result of a particular sin in their life.

But as long as we are in this world, we are vulnerable to sickness, death, pain, and suffering.

The Lord cares about our psychological and physical healing and the resolution of all our distress, but what is most important is that we truly know Him and draw near to Him.
He opens our eyes. The Lord wants us to know the most important thing in our lives: to truly open our hearts to the Lord Jesus.

"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me" (Mark 7:6).

"For the heart of this people has grown callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear."(Matthew 13:15-16)

"The Lord knows the hearts that surrender completely to the Lord so that He may lead their lives to life." The best has been delivered to us, and we are carried." (Acts 27:15)
Sickness breaks the body, but it cannot break the will and spirit. Open my eyes, O Lord.

"I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." (Psalm 118:17)

May your morning be filled with the light of Christ.