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Girl Born ...
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2010 (message contributor)
Girl Born Blind
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always
there for her. She told her boyfriend, ’If I could only see the world, I will marry you.’
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages
came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her, ’Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?’ The
girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn’t expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her
saying: ’Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before
they were yours, they were mine.’
The Bible says you and I were dead in our sins, that all of us had come short of the glory of God, we were all blind to the truth of God’s redeeming grace.
But one day Jesus stepped out of heaven and He not only gave us faith necessary for salvation, He gave His whole life for us. He gave it all so that you and I could be transferred, propitiated, into His very likeness.
Today I stand here before you not as a condemned sinner, but a forgiven sinner, not as a saint of manhood but as a saint of God, clothed in His righteousness – that’s the glory of the gospel.
One day I shall stand before my Creator and my Savoir not by faith but by sight. And on that day I shall proclaim, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.” Revelation 19:1b.
From a sermon by Ray Swift, The Gospel, 6/17/2010
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