If that wasn’t enough, the blind man’s surrender to God and rebirth in divine grace fills him with the courage to stand boldly before men who have the power to exile or execute him. The impotent inquisitors who question him and his parents are nothing when compared to the God/Man who twice put life inside of him, and so he can be a fearless witness to the good work God has birthed in him. What earthly power can compare to the Lord who brings light in the darkness, courage where there was once only shame, life where there has only ever been death? The healed man, the seeing man, looks out to us from the pages of John’s Gospel as the answer to that question. We need fear none of it. Whether evil men or corrupt leaders, whether lost children or broken hearts, whether pain or disappointment or sorrow or death, none of these things has power over the reborn sons and daughters of God. We have been washed; we have been healed; we have been given new eyes to see and new hearts to love and obey. We need nothing else.