Punching Holes in the Dark || Punching Holes in the Darkness of Limited Vision
Sunday, March 19, 2023 || 11:00am
Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor
When writer Robert Louis Stevenson “was a young boy growing up in Edinburgh, Scotland, he would often watch the village lamplighter making his rounds, lighting each of the street lamps one by one. Supposedly Stevenson once said, ‘Look, there is a man who punches holes in the darkness.’” -Paul Wadell, Becoming Friends
This morning we encounter a man who has been blind from birth. While he cannot see Jesus, Jesus sees him, touches him, and gives him sight. The "light of the world" punches a hole in the darkness that prevents him from seeing the fullness of who he is and who Jesus is.
How might we need to be touched in a similar way?
What if Jesus is standing before us, longing for us to fully see the magnitude of who he is and the gifts he longs to shine into our lives?