As I have said before, the miracles of Jesus are not just tricks that Jesus did to impress people but ‘signs’. Through these ‘signs’ God was declaring something to his people. Jesus affirms this explicitly here in the case of the blind man. This misfortune enabled this man to be used by God to reveal his glory and to speak through his circumstance. This is what God was declaring in this case: “Those who are blind will see and those who claim to see will become blind” (vs.39). If you acknowledge that you are spiritually blind, God will open your eyes of faith and reveal himself and his ways to you. But those who think they already know and understand everything, effectively close the doors of revelation to themselves. Revelation comes to those who know they are blind. One of the key elements of wisdom is the ability to recognise what you don’t know. In every truth of Scripture there is an eternal spring of revelation. As the heart becomes more and more open to God, we are also able to receive more and more of that revelation. You might already have the ideas and the concepts sorted, but truth is not ultimately contained in ideas and concepts. Truth is a person, the person of Christ, who claimed to be living water for our souls. When you open your heart to God, that living water can penetrate your innermost being, and then you will truly see.
Ask God to teach you, guide you, correct you and reveal himself and his ways to you.
Read John 9:35-41 again
