Amazing Grace ... I was blind, but now I see

Morning: Psalms 97, 99; Genesis 31:1-24; I John 2:1-11

Evening: Psalm 94; John 9:18-41

John Newton, slave trader turned Anglican priest, wrote “Amazing Grace”. Blind to the evils of the slave trade, he continued to buy and sell slaves even after his conversion to Christianity. Gradually - it took 20 years - he saw his error; then, he actively sought to end the slave trade. His famous line, “I was blind but now I see”, comes from the Bible story about the man born blind whom Jesus healed. Newton only knew he had been ‘blind’ after he could finally ‘see’. He didn’t know how it happened; he just knew that it was by ‘grace’.