"Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:2)
In today's question Pritchard (Who Is That Man? Daily Lenten Devotional) addresses a primal question . . . Why do bad things happen? In the book of John the disciples are asking about a blind man. Why is the man blind? Did he do something wrong and God punished him? or did his parents do something wrong and he's suffering for his parents sin? There has to be a reason that these bad things happen in the world.
The disciples are correct that someone sinned. There is the original sin of Adam and Eve. There are tragic things that happen in the world because we as humans can't help but be sinful. While we are all God's children and loved unconditionally, we are not perfect children. While there will always be brokeness and suffering in the world, God will always walk beside us through that brokeness.
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