The Man Born Blind (21)

The encounter with Christ has taken place. Christ has revealed Himself. The fruit of such a revelation is recorded in Scripture. He worshipped Him. To worship is an activity. How? With Jesus only through faith worked by the Holy Ghost; true worshipping is a fruit of the working of the Holy Ghost. The true worshipping always has the object in view, Christ, the gift of the Father. So, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are at work to be worshipped by sinners.

Worshipping is a large theme in the Bible. Worshipping is an adoration of who God is. To worship the Lord, we must know the Lord. The true knowledge of God is given by grace. The blind man received this knowledge. Now, in the given activity of worshipping, it is about God who gave and what by faith he may embrace. God becomes the object of that worshipping. Outside of Christ, God is a consuming fire; therefore, for this healed man the object of faith becomes the wonder. The wonder flows into a worshipping of God who sent His only begotten Son that we might have life through Him. True worship has something of Christ in it. May you know of it? Have you adored it already? Outside of Him it will not work. It needs to be a matter that is taken up in Christ for God’s honor. That awakens a worshipping; truly, that is worshipping.

The blind man may worship what he possesses in Christ, his healing and restoration. The Bible is also clear that there are two types of people who may worship. Here the man has received the benefit, but I read very clearly that in Matthew 8:2 a leper came to Him and…worshipped! He is a leper, but in his coming there may already be a worshipping. The object is the same as the healed man of John 9, but the work of the Mediator is different. Here the blind man was healed; there the leper is unclean—but both may worship. Notice then, not everyone receives to worship because of the same effect, but the true worshipping is about the same Person. Therefore, dear reader, if we ever have worshipped, then we know whom we have worshipped. Not as a cliché but as truth—to have seen Him by the eye of faith!

Worshipping was a cultural expression. Someone would lie prostrate before the person he desired to honor. So, you can see the healed man in your thoughts, lying on his knees with his head in the dust before His Saviour. The worshipping reveals the desire to express the amazement and wonder that instead of being bypassed, God came. It expresses humility and submission. True worship is described here as silence. Notice then, that true life is a life which is to be made silent under the greatness of the miracle. No more words are heard from the healed man, but the last we read is his position before his Saviour—in the dust!

It is the last we read of the healed man. What will be the last recorded of our life? Dear reader, if we die in our blindness, then we cannot worship. The history started to describe this man in his blindness, and twenty-one meditations have been written about his healing. The wonder was held before us. You can still be healed; without this healing there can be no worshipping.

People of the Lord, these last recorded words were because God did something. Christ was the center point for this man. The Spirit led this man to be Christ-centered. That work of the Spirit led to worshipping. May the Lord also grant in the lives of His people the leadings to worship because of the object, Jesus Christ, the gift of the Father. He was sent to reveal Himself as qualified to save them that are cast out. The healed man was given to worship in silence. May the Lord favor His people with such silence. The true worshipping was submission. May the Lord give again, under the blessed worshipping of God through Christ Jesus, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Although they were the last recorded words, the healed man’s strife went on, but the true submission is: “Take up the cross, and follow Me.”

May the Lord have used these articles to the extension of His kingdom and for the instruction of His people. Amen.

(This installment marks the end of this series.)

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