John 9:4 While It Is Day (1)

John 9:4 (KJV)  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

The productive Christian life in the Lord is a time-limited window. For our Lord Jesus Christ, He began His ministry at the age of thirty culminating in three-and-half years of service in which He preached the gospel, healed the sick, and comfort the sorrowing before His crucifixion. He used the “time while it is day” to well-articulated this truth.

He described the night as a time when work ceases. In the night, men rest from their labours. In the daytime, he is involved in the rigours of work. At night, there is no work. A depiction of life and the end of life. While we have life, we can serve God by bringing glory to His Name.

Jesus was about to heal a man born blind in this precious scene before us of our Lord’s compassion for the lost – John 9:1-3 (KJV)  And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Likewise, while the Christian has life, he has the God-given mandate to do good, to share the gospel and pray for others to impact their lives for eternity. May the Lord energize His people to work while it is day. Amen.