What is the big picture?

John Chapter 9 talks about the blind man being healed. Everyone but Jesus accused this person of some sin that caused this person to be blind. God does judge us and allow things in our lives not to punish us but to teach us something that we fail to even see because we are so focused on the issue. God showed me that we as Christians need to step back and not react to the first thing that comes to our mind but to look at the big picture and ask ourselves this question.

What is God trying to teach me in this situation?

We need to react with a wise and biblical reaction in everything we do say or think. We need to stop and think!

Jesus said that a disability is not caused by sin but is created to be used of God for his honor and glory. Instead of focusing on the issue ask yourself how can I use this disability to bring Glory to God! So there is your answer for the question common question: "If God is so good and loves us then why did God make people in the world with blindness, deafness and other disabilities?

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
(John 9:1-3)


Bill Irwin and together with his Seeing-Eye Dog, Orient, hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 1990. He is the only blind person who has ever hiked the entire 2,168 miles from Georgia to Maine. The significance of this feat is that without God's help it would have been impossible.