There are different kinds of blindness. Some are physical. Others are harder to spot and far more dangerous. John 9 tells the story of a man who was blind from birth and a group of people who could see just fine, at least physically. What Jesus exposes in this chapter is that the greatest blindness is not the inability to see with our eyes, but the refusal to see with our hearts.

Most people know the feeling of being hungry. Not the light kind of hunger that sends you to the pantry, but the deeper ache that gnaws at the inside of your life. You can have a full schedule and still feel empty. You can check every box and still feel like something is missing. It is the kind of hunger that comes from somewhere deeper than the stomach. Scripture calls it the hunger of the soul.