Today's readings are Ecclesiastes 9.1-17 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Eccl.+9.1-17 ) and John 9.24-41 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=John+9.24-41 ).
I'd like to show you that I am a righteous person. You'd probably like to show me your righteousness too. We like to be thought righteous, wise, blameless, and often even respectable. But how can we really know? And how are we going to judge righteousness and sin in others? Doubtless there is an assurance we can have in Christ. As we believe the Scripture we see that if Jesus has set us free through faith in his name, we are indeed free. And much of time most people find an emotional assurance, their soul does find some degree of rest, even in this sinful world. But in the final analysis I am ultimately unable to prove my righteousness to you and you are unable to prove your righteousness to me.
In Ecclesiastes 9 the preacher points out that we will not always recognize righteous people, we will not always recognize wise people, our understanding is skewed. We do the best we can to hear and understand wisdom when we can perceive that it is wisdom, and we trust that the Lord will guide everything in the end.
In John 9 we see that the Jewish leaders, who were zealous to protect God's law and the righteousness of the nation, failed ot recognize Jesus, the true Lord and Savior. May the Lord give us the grace that we, like the man born blind, may recognize Jesus for who he is, turning to him in faith.
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