...Michael Ramsey once wrote that the Church exists to show the world “a glimpse of the divine compassion that refuses to abandon humanity.”
That compassion is what we see here.
Jesus kneels in the dirt beside a man everyone else has already explained.
He kneels where others have passed by.
He kneels where religion had already given its answer.
And from the dust—
from the ordinary earth of creation itself—
he makes the instrument of healing.
Mud becomes sight.
Darkness becomes light.
And the man who had lived his whole life in shadow opens his eyes to a world suddenly filled with brightness.
So perhaps the question for us this morning is not the one the disciples asked.
Not who sinned?
But something far more searching.
Where is Christ kneeling now?
Where in our city…
Where in our neighbourhoods…
Where in the quiet suffering that passes us every day…
Where is Christ kneeling in the dust?
Because wherever he kneels, the light of God is already beginning to break through.
And the Church is called first not to explain the darkness—
but to kneel beside him
until someone else
can see again.
Amen.
