Trust Jesus, even when he puts mud in your eye
“The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.” (John 9:11 NIV)
A sign of our spiritual maturity is when we follow truth wherever it leads; we face the truth no matter how much it hurts; we stand on truth no matter how much it costs.
We’re called to come out of the darkness by being obedient to the truth, who is Jesus Christ, our Lord: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 NIV).
The man, formerly blind, could now see because he did exactly what Jesus told him to do. And because he could see with new eyes from Jesus, his whole perspective changed.
Yet, when his neighbors realized the man was no longer blind, they couldn’t believe their eyes because they were blind to the ways of Jesus: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14 NIV).
As the now-seeing man walked back from Siloam, those who’d ridiculed him saw a man transformed. He was a new man re-created by Jesus — from a man born blind into a man who, through the eyes of Christ, could see all the way to eternity.
If you grasp “how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge” (Ephesians 3:18-19a NIV), then you will understand the extraordinary value of every human life, how each individual is a masterpiece created by God.
You, too, are a masterpiece created by God.
- How has Jesus re-created you? What is different about your life since becoming a Christian?
- How does being considered a masterpiece by God change your self-image?
Jon Walker is managing editor of Rick Warren’s Daily Hope Devotionals and the author of Breakfast with Bonhoeffer.
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