Looking Forward

I have not posted anything in a few weeks. I do not want to just rehash current posts of visit current events. There is enough political commentators and others discussing the ills of the world. Part of the commentators are working on all the past mistakes making the current crises all the greater. If I am going to look at current problems, we do not need to look to the past to find the reason for the problem. I do not see any reason why we need to look in the past. We only need to see the truth of Jesus' amazing truth.

Jesus had the great opportunity to claim past sins and wrongs is the cause of our current condition. In the Gospel according to John, Jesus is asked by the disciples about the condition of a man who was blind from birth (John 9:1-2). Now we and the disciples expect a long discourse on how many people and how God punishes onto the next generation for the sins of one person. We are taught this in the Old Testament when the people of Israel are entering the Promised Land and the commandments. Yet, Jesus does not responded this way.

Jesus focuses on the now, the present. He pronounces that this man is blind that the "work of God might be demonstrated in his life." (John 9:3). Most people (my self included) have been hung up on this line. We do not understand how a God and just God could allow a person to be blind and live the majority of his life in that condition to "show the work of God." Is there not any other way to show God's work?

I was just thinking about this in the current economic crises and in some personal frustrations. I came to see that it is not about what we have done in the past. It is all about the present. Right now Jesus was in front of the blind man. At that moment, Jesus healed the man and he was able to see clearly. Jesus was not worried about how the man became blind. He was just worried that the man was blind.

The same is for us today. Jesus does not care how we came to the situation we are in right now. It might have been reckless spending. It might of been some bad choices with relationships in the past. It might just be the sin of the past haunting the present. Jesus is here now to heal and restore. Jesus is worried about now and the future.

I am no longer looking backwards. I am only looking forward.