Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth…
Jesus spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed
the eyes of the blind man with the clay. 7 And He said to him, “Go,
wash in the pool of Siloam”. So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
وَفِيمَا هُوَ
مُجْتَازٌ رَأَى إِنْسَانًا أَعْمَى مُنْذُ وِلاَدَتِه6قَالَ هذَا
وَتَفَلَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ وَصَنَعَ مِنَ التُّفْلِ طِينًا وَطَلَى بِالطِّينِ
عَيْنَيِ الأَعْمَى. 7وَقَالَ لَهُ: «اذْهَبِ اغْتَسِلْ فِي بِرْكَةِ
سِلْوَامَ» الَّذِي تَفْسِيرُهُ: مُرْسَلٌ، فَمَضَى وَاغْتَسَلَ وَأَتَى بَصِيرًا.
John 9:1, 6, 7
Jesus
had healed people before by just touching them. So why did Jesus choose a new
method? Why did Jesus spit and heal this blind man in this way? The reason is:
this man had no eyes, not blind eyes.
Spit
and dirt (clay) mixed and put on the face does not sound very nice. Do you
agree? The blind man could have reacted by saying something like ‘How
dare you spit on me and make my eyes full of mud, I thought you were going to
heal me, not make me worse’. But he didn’t, he totally trusted Jesus and went
to wash. I have learnt that Archeologists
say that Siloam; where the blind man had to go and wash; is very big with wide
steps on 3 sides, and is very difficult to get into. One needs to be courageous
and brave to go in and it is extremely difficult to go into when you cannot
see.
But
the blind man went and washed and was healed and could see for the first time.
Some
of my lessons learned:
- I should never put Jesus in a box, for His ways are totally different than our ways. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. Isaiah 55
- I need to Trust in the LORD with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding Proverbs 3:5
- What I want and pray for may not be delivered in the fashion I am thinking about.
I invite you to repeat the following
prayer for yourself:
Abba Father, thank You for
loving me with a deep and everlasting love.
Help me to ‘see’ Your ways and understand Your thoughts. Lord, give me wisdom
to not lean on my own understanding and strengthen me to trust You and follow
You with all my heart and all my mind, soul and strength. Thank You Father for
Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my
life. God
I praise You, revere You, worship You, I stand in awe of You, I lift You up on
high, and glorify Your Holy Name. In the Holy
Name of Jesus I pray. To Him be the glory and the power and the dominion forever and
ever. Amen.
Jesus loves you,
In Him,
Wagdi Henein
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