The Power of We
"We must do the works of Him who sent Me "
Text: John 9:1-12
The power is Spiritual.
Primarily focused on Spiritual timelines and Spiritual (i.e. Kingdom) agendas.
As the Apostle John captures the 6th miracle Jesus performed to authenticate His relationship with God the Father, he also used the occasion of Jesus healing the man born blind to inform His disciples it was no longer just Him doing the works of Him who sent Him… they were now expected to do those works too!
We talk about this a lot. Jesus was driven by a singular spiritual focus… to glorify His Father. When speaking of His Father Jesus often used the phrase “Him who sent Me”.
Until the healing of the man born blind Jesus prefaced that phrase with a singular personal pronoun. My will is to do the will of “Him who sent Me”. I do not seek my own will, but the will of “Him who sent me”. Jesus was laser focused on His Father’s will.
Here in Chapter 9, the disciples see a blind man and ask why was he born blind? Jesus tells them straight out it wasn’t because of sin. Not his, not his parents. He was born blind so Jesus could make a point for them… and for us!
Jesus switches from the singular personal pronoun to the plural we. “We” must do the works of Him who sent Me. What works? The spiritual works that glorify the Father. They had graduated from followers to participants. In one little word Jesus changed everything.
We have all spent some amount of time trying to figure out how our life fits into what God is doing. That is if we are a true believer. Once Jesus is your Lord you begin will begin trying to figure out what God expects.
Here’s the good news. You are part of a “We” headed by God the Father and His son. And… the power to do the works of Him who sent us is provided by them via the Spirit. No group is more powerful than the sum of its parts. As believers, we’ve been joined to Team Trinity and that means the Power of We to spiritually glorify the Father is unstoppable!
Be Blessed!
Roy
