God the Only Cause and Creator

We live in a world that feels pretty random. Diseases show up uninvited. Relationships implode for mysterious reasons. Good people get hit by terrible circumstances while jerks seem to skate by untouched. It's enough to make you wonder if anyone's actually steering this ship.

This week's Bible lesson tackles that exact question—but not with platitudes or wishful thinking. It goes straight to the foundation: what if everything actually has one source?

Take the guy born blind in John 9. His disciples immediately start playing the blame game—whose sin caused this? But Jesus cuts through all that noise with something radical: "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him."

Wait, what? Not punishment. Not random bad luck. An opportunity for divine intelligence to show up.

Here's what gets me: Jesus doesn't fix the blindness like it's broken plumbing. He reveals what was always true—that spiritual sight, spiritual wholeness, is this man's actual identity. The healing isn't God stepping in to override natural law. It's natural law—the law of divine causation—finally getting some recognition.

I know this sounds abstract when you're dealing with real problems. But stay with me.

When we accept that there's one cause behind everything—call it God, divine Mind, universal intelligence—we're not just adopting a nice philosophy. We're aligning our thinking with how things actually work. And that alignment? That's where healing happens.

Abraham and Sarah knew something about this. At 100 and 90, they're way past the biological window for parenthood. But divine causation doesn't depend on material conditions. It creates them. Sarah literally laughs when she realizes she's pregnant—and names her son Isaac, which means "laughter." Sometimes the best response to impossible-made-possible is just to crack up.

The lesson here isn't that we can manipulate divine law to get what we want. It's that when we understand there's really only one power operating—the power of infinite good—we stop fighting against reality and start working with it.

Does this mean every problem magically disappears? No. But it does mean we approach challenges from a completely different angle. Instead of asking "Why is this happening to me?" we start asking "What is the truth here that I'm not seeing yet?"

The man born blind didn't need to earn his healing or figure out the right spiritual formula. He just needed someone to recognize his wholeness and call it out. That recognition—that spiritual seeing—is available to all of us, right now.

Not as escape from the human experience, but as the foundation that makes the human experience make sense.

Here’s a song inspired by the lesson