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towards the man in John 9. He eventually was given the abilityto see. But that would never happen for my son.Well, you may remember the email I sent to you on that verysubject, asking why couldn’t people just leave us alone? Whycouldn’t Jesus have said, “You’re blind and you’re fine”? And youhelpfully took me to Paul, and Paul’s thorn in the flesh, and theHoly Spirit used all of those people. I am convinced to this day itwas the Holy Spirit coming to those individuals saying, “Go talkto John Knight about John 9,” all to make me that angry to cometo you and say, “I want an explanation, Pastor John.” And ratherthan disciplining me—I don’t think my language was too bad, itcould have been but I can’t remember now—but rather than discipliningme, you took me to Paul, another Paul, and his thorn inthe flesh, and the Holy Spirit just said, “See. See.” And I did. I did.And then I went back to John 9. I read it. I see it! I see it! “So thatthe works of God might be displayed in him.” He did it for Paul,he did it for this man, and he did it for my Paul. It was God. I hadnothing to do with that. It was God who did that.God has wiped my memory of who I did this to, but therewas more than one person who came and brought John 9 tome, and I attacked them with my tongue, and I took out everyweapon I had, and I left them bleeding. Those are shamefulmemories for me. But they caused an email to you.Disability and the Sovereign Goodness of GodPiper: When was that “I see” moment? How old was Paul?Knight: He would have been over a year old at that point. Hewas almost two, actually. For us it was a relatively short season.Piper: Yes, I mention in the sermon people I had met who saidit took them eight years to be okay with their totally disabled37