March 22
Scripture of the day: "He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him...' When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes, and said to him, 'Go, wash in the pool of Siloam' ... So he went away and washed, and came back seeing." John 9:1-7
Thought of the day: Jesus, the light of the world, saw a man blind to all light. The man did not see Jesus spit on the ground. Did he hear him? Jesus made clay from street dirt and spit ... and applied it to the man's eyes. How odd that must have been to His disciples. Then Jesus sent the blind man on a faith walk to the pool of Siloam. He didn't offer His arm to guide him. He sent him alone to find the pool in his darkness.
Challenge of the day: How do we react to the spit and street-dirt clay that comes into our lives? Jesus used it to heal the man ... to display the works of God. And would we be willing to stumble through the darkness on a faith walk to the pool? And if we were with Him that day, would we have seen the opportunity for God to work? Or, like the disciples, would we have tried to engage Him in a theological debate about suffering?
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