When Jesus came, the most religious people in the community – the Pharisees – were the least likely to believe, embrace, or accept Him. 

Jesus challenged their wisdom and holiness, and they hated him for it.  

It’s interesting how Jesus had his harshest words for those who thought they already knew everything – those enamored by their own understanding, expectations, and egos – those religious folks who rejected the very One they claimed to be waiting on!

These religious folks had a problem with how Jesus looked and where he came from.  They took issue with who Jesus healed and helped, they were annoyed by His grace and generosity, they rejected those with whom Jesus kept company, and they were annoyed by Jesus’ audacity to reinterpret scriptures that they claimed to be experts in. 

Their arrogance made them ignorant.  Their arrogance made them self-righteous and judgmental. Their arrogance and ignorance made them blind guides – that is willfully blind – and worse off than any blind man that Jesus healed!  

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.  

John 9:41

If our faith is not tempered by humility, our blindness will become a judgment against us!

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam