John 9: 1-41; John 3:12; John 5:39-48 - Jesus often used temporary situations to illustrate larger spiritual issues. Do you know that there may be hardships and obstacles in your life that are there so that God will be glorified in them in some way in the end? While many may skew understandings of sin and it's consequences, Jesus does not. Is it offensive to believe that God may allow some complex thing, some painful thing using such to carry out something else that He wants? This is where our trust in God lies, in His ability to know and oversee what we simply cannot. Jesus shows His tenderness to those who have been put out by the elite, by the ruling class, as He seeks out the man born blind when he is removed from the assembly. Jesus is still pursuing those cast out today. He rescues sinners, after all. That's really good news for me and for you, unless you think you see already.