The Danger of Losing What One Thinks He Has
The danger of spiritual pride is that it makes you lose what you think you already have.
In a stunning display of their own blindness, the Pharisees excommunicated the man who was healed, casting him out of the synagogue (John 9:34).
In their rage, they were blinded by their own sense of superiority, refusing to acknowledge a divine miracle—a miracle of a man born without eyes—that even in our modern world, is humanly impossible to achieve.
These religious elites were so exclusive in their thinking that they deliberately rejected this unprecedented sign. Their own darkened hearts had poisoned their minds, causing them to expel the very person who could have led them to the source of light.
A stark warning
Jesus warns of this very peril when He says:
“Take care how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given; and from the one who has not, even what he thinks he has will be taken away” (Luke 8:18).
This was a direct warning to the Pharisees.
They believed themselves to be custodians of truth and carriers of God’s covenant, yet their hardness of heart excluded them from the very kingdom they claimed to defend.
The man they cast out was welcomed into the light, but they, thinking themselves in possession of sight, walked deeper into darkness.
Shattered into pieces
This is the sobering irony of the gospel: those who think they “see” but refuse to receive God’s work are left with nothing.
Pride leads not only to blindness but also to loss.
Just as Israel’s leaders clung to the law while rejecting the Lawgiver, many today cling to forms of religion, traditions, or moral superiority, but miss the transforming grace of Christ.
The man healed from blindness illustrates the opposite spirit—he had nothing to boast of, no status, no claim, no knowledge—yet by receiving Jesus, he gained everything.
The Pharisees had everything—knowledge, law, temple, authority—but by rejecting Jesus, they lost even what they thought they had.
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