Spit...Mud...Go?

John 9:7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing (ESV)

    Lets imagine for a minute, you have come before the Lord in supplication, making your request known before him. For the sake of illustration, your asking the Lord what you ought to do with your life. It is then the Lord speaks to you, and tells you He’s sending you to a foreign land, where He has prepared a work for you to walk in. You begin rejoicing over the promise and direction you have just received, but it isn’t long before your rejoicing turns into doubt. Upon giving you this promise the Lord also tells you that you will blindfolded during your travels. All of a sudden the direction given doesn’t seem so clear. You begin to question the Lord, asking him if you cant see, then how will you ever make it there? Due to your finite reasoning, you have forgotten the promise that He just made with you.

    Now, we need look no further then the healing of the blind man to see this very illustration played out before us. Only what we will see is the faith of a blind man, not limiting the word of God by his finite reasoning, but believing in the God of the impossible (Luke 1:37). As I was reading this chapter, I started asking the Lord, why would he cover this mans eyes with mud. Wouldn’t this mud make it harder for him to see. But the Lord quickly responded with an answer, that’s right, it would make it harder for him to see. But it will also require him to have a greater faith in my word, ultimately bringing glory to my name as I work through what man has deemed impossible (vs3).

    The blind man did not count the further limiting of the mud against the works of the Lord. Rather in faith, he went to the pool, the pool which means sent. I’m sure the word “Go,” was ringing so clear in his ear, empowering him as he walked not by sight but by faith. Standing firmly on the promise that he had been sent on mission with an anointing from Jesus of Nazareth. To no surprise the man went, washed and came back seeing! The Lord is forever sending out the message to his saints to GO (Matthew 28:18-20). Only it may be with that commissioning things begin to look a little muddy. We need not worry, for Jesus is sending us out with an anointing. The anointing is found in the washing of our spiritual eyes with the word of God. The eternal pool, the only pool that holds the authority of a sure promise (Psalm 33:11). As we immerse ourselves in the pool of Gods word, the things once muddy will look so clear, the things of this world will begin to take on their proper perspective. We to will share in this testimony, “though I was blind, now I see.”