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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

MAY The Seventeenth MY BODILY INFIRMITIES

JOHN ix.1-12.

An infirmity becomes doubly burdensome when we give it a false interpretation. The weight of a thing is determined by our conception of it. If I look upon my ailment as the stroke of an offended God, I wear it like the chains of a slave. If I look upon it as the fire of the gracious Refiner, I can calmly await the beneficent issue. It is my Lord, engaged in chastening His jewels!

And so our Master first of all relieves the blind man of the false interpretation of his infirmity. |Neither did this man sin, nor his parents.| That lifts the sorrow out of the winter into the spring. It sets it in the warm, sweet light of grace. It becomes transfigured. It wears a new face, placed there in |the light of His countenance.|

And then our Lord relieves the blind man of the infirmity itself. The ministry of blindness was accomplished, and sight was given. No man is kept in the darkness a moment longer than infinite love deems good. Our Lord does not overlook the prison-house, and leave us there forgotten. |He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.| So cheer thee, my soul! The Lord is on thy side! The Miracle-worker knows His time and |the dreariest path, the darkest way, shall issue out in heavenly day.|

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