One Thing I Know

Many in this world have given their lives to Jesus and celebrate the forgiveness of their sins. It is a miraculous event that, quite frankly, we cannot explain. Salvation is one of those wonderful things that we experience but really don’t quite understand. We know that Christ came to earth, was crucified, and through this sacrifice, man’s sin can finally be forgiven. However, the understanding of how we were once lost in our sins and trespasses, but now are found, is that we are found by crying out for forgiveness and asking Jesus to make us new.

We, as followers of Christ, know that we are saved, and we know the mode of our salvation, but to explain the miraculous is beyond our capabilities. This reminds me of the man who was blind since birth in John 9. In this chapter, a great question is asked. Lord, why was this man born blind? Was it the result of his parents' sin, or his own? Jesus replied that it was neither. The man was born blind so that the power of God’s work would be seen through him. Jesus spat in some dirt, made mud, and spread it on the man’s eyes. Then Jesus told him to wash in the pool of Siloam. The man obeyed and immediately was able to see.

Now this is an amazing miracle, one that everyone should have been celebrating, but not everyone celebrated. The Pharisees wanted to know if he was really born blind. Finding this to be true, they did not want Jesus to receive glory for this miracle; they claimed the Lord was a sinner. They asked, “So, how did you receive your sight? Here is the man’s answer in verse 25: “He then answered, 'Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” You see, the man didn’t know how Jesus made him able to see, but he did know one thing: he was blind, and now he sees, and that was all that mattered to him.

We were all born spiritually blind. We lived in darkness, groping, trying to find our way. Then came the day Jesus stepped into our lives, and we heard the words of salvation and life. We cried out that we wanted to be saved, that we wanted to see. In that instance, salvation was given to us. We don’t have to understand how; we just know that we were born blind, but because of Jesus, we see, and we are saved. You see, the man born blind is exactly like us. When we tell people that there is salvation in no other name except Jesus, the question will be asked, “How is this possible?” How can we possibly explain the miracle of salvation? We probably can’t, but what we do know and what we can tell everyone around us is that “I don’t know, but what I do know is that once I was blind, but now I can see.” I don’t know about you, but for me, that’s all I need to know.