Witness Exhibit A, a devotional thought

There's a famous scene in John 9, where Jesus heals a man who had been born blind from birth. The whole story is packed with drama and tension, but I especially love the exchange between the healed man and the Pharisees, immediately following Jesus' healing miracle. For their part, the Pharisees insist that this healing couldn’t have been of God, because Jesus did it on a Sabbath day, ergo Jesus must be “a sinner” (9:24). The man’s reply to this logic is priceless: “Whether he’s a sinner or not, I don’t know. But one thing do I know: I was once blind and now I see!”

In the face of hard questions about who Jesus is and where he came from, the healed man points to the empirical facts of his encounter with Jesus, and lets Jesus’ healing miracle speak for itself.

This observation sends my thoughts in two different directions. On the one hand, it encourages me to know that in response to the hard questions I may get asked about my faith, it is enough simply to point to the transformation that the Lord has accomplished in my life, as the evidence of what I believe. But on the other hand, it challenges me to ask: am I pursuing after Jesus in such a way that I am experiencing life-transformation and healing (in all the different ways that healing occurs, not simply physical, but emotional, spiritual and so on). Is there anything actually going on in my life with Jesus that I could point to, if I needed empirical evidence that he is, in fact, the Son of God?