A Blessing enjoyed by the pure in heart is that of discerning with increasing clarity the truth of the sinless nature of man. Unselfed love and unswerving fidelity to Truth mark the seekers of this right discernment. Christ Jesus explained his glorious mission thus (John 18: 37): "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."
Loyalty to the truth to which he bore witness is exemplified in Jesus' healing of the man who had been blind from his birth. From the record given in the ninth chapter of John's Gospel it is evident that Jesus was receptive of much more than the gift of physical eyesight, for he was able afterwards to discern that the Master was the Son of God. As light reveals the beauty of a gem, so Christian Science illumines this Gospel narrative and brings out its profound spiritual significance.
The disciples asked whether it was this man's own sin or that of his parents which had caused his blindness. Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents." Beholding the man of God's creating, in whom the faculty of perfect spiritual sight is ever manifested, the Master anointed the man's eyes with clay and told him to wash in the pool of Siloam, which means "Sent."
