Wednesday, February 17, 2010

It doesn't make any sense

Have you ever feel that what happens around you don't make any sense? Have you ever asked why? Have you ever felt that everything in your life isn't going good? Have you felt that all your dreams are gone?

There is a Bible verse that I want to quote for you if you feel like everything around your life had turned the way you didn't want it, or didn't expect it.

"Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes (John 9:6)

When I think about this blind man I wonder if he was one of those who said: This doesn't make any sense. The truth is that I don't know who he was, what he felt or said after Jesus put on his eyes some mud with saliva.
Try to picture a blind man, who have probably heard about Jesus, waiting to meet him and get his miracle, but all that he got at the first time was mud with saliva; really? Couldn't Jesus have dome something else, like just touched his eyes? I am sure He could, but if He chose to do it that wait could be because today, thousands of years later, someone would be writing, thinking and wondering about this scene.

I think that sometimes we are like this blind man, waiting for our own miracle; but what happen when things don't go the way we want? Most of the times, it doesn't make any sense! We may feel the mud and saliva in our faces, we may not see any light, and all we have to say is: Why? Well, what it may seems without any sense for us can be part of an amazing plan that God has for our lives. Our response then, should be like this blind man, while feeling the mud and saliva on his eyes, he did what Jesus told him: ""Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing" (John 9:7)
He obeyed what the Lord was telling him; are you? He didn't doubt; are you? If we can act like this blind man and trust in the Lord even when things doesn't go the way we want, or when something we were not expecting happen, then we will be able to see just as he did!

When people saw him, they couldn't believe what had happened, they were wondering if he was the same blind man who used to sit and beg and he said:"I am the man" (John 9:8-9) He was not ashamed of what he was, he recognized and accepted who he was to let them know who he had became. People wanted to know how his eyes were opened and at that moment he told them exactly what had happened. (John 9:10-11)

We need to act like this man; believing that the Lord is working in our favor when we don't see anything and when all we have is mud and saliva in our faces, because if we obey his instructions and do exactly what He says, we are going to be able to see again. May we all be able to testify that it is Jesus who works the miracles in our lives and it is because of Him we go through those moments that don't make any sense.
May we also be able to say: "I was blind and now I see" (John 9:25)

Don't worry if you can't see anything, be obedient and wait upon the Lord because you'll be able to see again!