I was anticipating for the power of God to come upon us last time. It was the second installment of our series and there was nothing more evident in the New Testament than the greatness of God in healing people - physically and spiritually. This gospel is very common to everyone perhaps, you have heard this so many times already only that You do not know what lies beyond the words printed in the Bible. Since Jesus became so popular in their land, people were all anticipating what will be his next move but little do they know, they would be grossed out by what they will be seeing that day.
One day, as Jesus went along, He saw a man who was blind from birth. People of their generation were speculating who sinned that this curse came upon their family and it was too unfortunate that he has to bear the burden of blindness. Unlike the previous stories in the Bible, people would cry out to Him to get healed, but not this man. He did not even care but Jesus did so he spat on the ground, played it with the dust of the floor and made mud out of it. If I were in His time, I would be grossed out and think what is this man doing? With all anticipation, this is what I'd see? GOSH! After seeing this, He simply instructed the mane to wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam then a miracle happened -- HE WAS ABLE TO SEE! Another miracle happened and I'm very sure people rejoiced to know this. But this is not what happened. Instead of rejoicing in seeing this miracle, they doubted; they questioned and; they did not believe. People started speculating if the man was really blind at all. The man was asked not even once nor twice but a lot of times by the unbelievers. The Pharisees asked him and his parents if indeed was he blind all these years. The man was healed but why can't accept the fact that he was healed by the man people say is the Son of God?
One realization I had after hearing this service that we can see in faith without seeing. Confused? Yeah. probably. Most likely but have we asked ourselves, do we really believe that God can do this - heal people? One afternoon back in college, our psychology professor asked us "how can you describe red to someone who was blind since birth?" We were dumbfounded and we were left at awe thinking that our mad professor stuck again! Since she has the baton, we tried to answer but we all failed to even conceive something in our head that we know would never be possible at all. Then she said, "Put your hand on your chest and feel your heartbeat. Your heart pumps blood in your body that keeps you alive and this blood is colored RED. So long as you feel your blood flows in your body, so you know what red is." We were like WHAT?!?! But this can be true to anyone who never had seen red at all. We can always say that one is wrong because we have our own belief but this blind person does not have anything to compare his own version of red but to himself.
I call this one FAITH. This word is so vast that would question us how much do we know about God. We say that we believe that God will do things wonderfully for us; that He is a promise-keeping God; that He is the beginning and the end; that he is the best provider ever; but do we actually believe these things? The man in last Sunday's gospel is a man of Faith. When he was blind - he did not have any belief at all but when he was freed from his blindness, he believed that the Son of God healed him even if he did not have any idea who that person really was. Was it really the Son of God or another demon in disguise?
I will leave the thinking to y'all. It was not our eyes that was freed from blindness. What was it really for you? Think and ask God to guide you in knowing the truth in darkness.
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