Article July 25, 1959 Issue

WHAT ARE WE SEEING?

JESSIE PAFFLEY

CENTURIES ago, skeptics disbelieved the man born blind when he avowed that Christ Jesus had restored his sight. To their materialistic thought, this was impossible. Even Jesus' disciples attributed the man's blindness to his own sin or to some sin of his parents. Thus they ignorantly gave power to aggressive mental suggestion.

Metaphorically Jesus spat upon this phase of the carnal mind, which, being incapable of discerning spiritual things, works from material and oftentimes sinister motives. He knew that erroneous suggestion tempted men to believe in the finality and fatality of certain conditions. To correct this darkened belief, he said to his disciples (John 9:5), "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." He also explained that he must work the works of God while it was day.

His disciples may have thought that he meant while it was still daylight, but Jesus was speaking of the day of Spirit, which requires no solar rays to perpetuate its everlasting radiance. Through this spiritual light of divine understanding, Jesus beheld the perfect man of God's creating and reversed the evidence paraded by matter.

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