This man I was reading about in John 9 was a blind man, literally blind he couldn't see. Is there a difference to a certain degree really with some who can see? Many go through life like they are blind and limp about without really seeing what God has for them. I want to talk about this" blind man" in John, he started out blind from birth. He didn't know his life would change that day, and who would cause this change for him. Jesus is the light of the world and when you come in contact with him, you are no longer in darkness like this blind man!
Some times Jesus did things in the bible that would make no sense in the natural, but its best to do as this man, "don't ask", just be obedient and do as the Master say"s! Jesus spit on the ground and made some mud with his saliva, and put it on the man's eye's, when Jesus said "GO" "wash in the Pool of Si loam" that man did exactly as Jesus said. He was no longer blind ! Psalm107: HE SENT FORTH HIS WORD AND HEALED THEM; HE RESCUED THEM FROM THE GRAVE !
This man had a choice to do as Jesus said! He didn't know anything about who Jesus was, he could of been some crazy man. The pieces in this mans life were not coming together, he didn't have answers as to why he was the way he was. He was a beggar in life, until it all changed for him. This man went from "begging to declaring" what happened to him! All the other's saw him and were wondering if he was the same man. They said it can't be, but he INSISTED it was !
When Jesus touched him, it caused the pieces of his life to come together! While others were trying to speak against this miracle he just kept declaring what happened to him. He started out saying "THIS MAN THAT YOU CALL JESUS" put some mud on my eyes, and told me go and wash, so I went and now I see !
Their was so much talk about this miracle in the town, other's were trying slander this great miracle Jesus had done. Not letting up again, they asked the man "What have you to say about him"! This man still not sure who JESUS was and said "HE IS A PROPHET ". This man was not going to let them steal what Jesus had done for him, at this point he was getting really iterated from all their questions. He still wasn't sure of who JESUS was but said WHETHER HE IS A SINNER OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW. I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE!
He didn't even know it but he became a preacher in that town,declaring and backing Jesus works! He said God must of heard him, other wise I would not be healed! He was giving Jesus credit were credit was due, not caring of the consequences to be thrown out ! That's what they did, they threw him out of the synagogue for saying these things.
The puzzle was going to come together completely for this man, Jesus wasn't threw with him yet! Jesus heard and found this man he knew his heart and that he wanted answers to life. So Jesus approached him and said
"DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE SON OF MAN?"
This man was now going to know him not as just a man who put mud on my eyes, or a sinner, or a prophet, or a godly man, but as THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD! He humbled himself before Jesus and said WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN, TELL ME SO I WILL BELIEVE IN HIM!
Jesus said "YOU HAVE NOW SEEN HIM; IN FACT, HE IS THE ONE SPEAKING WITH YOU"!
The man said Lord I believe, and he went and worshiped Jesus.
This mans life changed forever, he had the pieces come together for him, He was blind but said now I See! If we want answers they are there for us just as this man, he did as Jesus asked as silly as it may of seemed. He was washed in the living word and came out of the grave. Jesus said himself in that scripture he came that the blind would see, and those who can see will become blind, "why" our pride can hold us back and we won;t have the answers Jesus wants to freely give us! HE LOVES US !
what an excellent demonstration of the revelation of who Jesus Christ is, and what Jesus wants to give us, once we were blind but now we see, the word will renew our thinking and change us for ever...awesome word!!
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