John 9:1-8
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 7"Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" 9Some claimed that he was.
Others said, "No, he only looks like him."
But he himself insisted, "I am the man."
This is a story we all have heard many times in sunday school or from the pulpit but as I read this passage this week God showed me something that I had never seen before!
He showed me the importance of the word "Wash" in this passage.
Most people would overlook this small word but I began to think about it and God then revealed to me that Many times people come and ask god to heal them or touch them or deliver them from the situation there in and God does heal them or touch them but they don't realize it because they don't "Wash"!
Because we as americans want everything now we don't want to waste time by going and washing the dirt from our eyes so we can see so we have many people in churches today walking around with Mud in there eyes who think that god didn't touch them but in all reality he did they were just to stupid to wash the freaking mud out of there eyes!
The Second thing that caught my eye in the verse is toward the end where people were wondering if this man was the same blind man they knew before.
I think that so many times we go into school after experiencing god and we still look the same! We may not act the same or talk the same but we still look the same!
In Ruth 3:3 Ruth had to go and Wash herself before she could go from her life as a servant girl to a life with Boaz of luxury!
That in leaving our former lives we have to take time and wash our selves before going into our new lives as christians so that others may see the difference in us because people will always judge the way you look before the way you act!
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