{"id":42136,"date":"2026-10-29T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=42136"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:42:36","slug":"26-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1030\/","title":{"rendered":"From Blind to Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Christians love to sing \u201cAmazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I\u2019m found. I was blind, but now I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blind. Blind to the promise of eternal life. Blind to the provider of life. We relate to the words of the was-blind beggar: \u201cOne thing I do know. I was blind, but now I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

His story is our story. Perhaps that\u2019s why John was in no hurry to tell it. He needed only twelve verses to describe how water became wine, but he dedicated a whopping forty-one verses to depicting how Jesus found and cured and matured the blind man. Now why? Among the explanations is this one. What Jesus did physically for the blind beggar, he desires to do spiritually for all people\u2014to restore our sight.<\/p>\n

Remember my friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God’s Presence & Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christians love to sing \u201cAmazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I\u2019m found. I was blind, but now I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blind. Blind to the promise of eternal life. Blind to the provider of life. We relate to the words of the was-blind beggar: \u201cOne thing I do know. I was blind, but now I see.\u201d<\/p>\n

His story is our story. Perhaps that\u2019s why John was in no hurry to tell it. He needed only twelve verses to describe how water became wine, but he dedicated a whopping forty-one verses to depicting how Jesus found and cured and matured the blind man. Now why? Among the explanations is this one. What Jesus did physically for the blind beggar, he desires to do spiritually for all people\u2014to restore our sight.<\/p>\n

Remember my friends, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42139,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136\/revisions\/42139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}