When the disciples saw a man who had been blind from birth, they asked Jesus whose sin was to blame. Jesus turned their attention to what God was about to do in him. He spat on the ground, made mud, and put it on the man’s eyes. Then He told him to go wash in the pool of Siloam. The man still couldn’t see, and now he had mud on his eyes. Mud hardly looks like something that would help a man see. He had Jesus’ word to go on, and he set out for the pool while he was still blind. We can spend so much time asking God to show us how things will turn out that we stand still when He’s already made the next step plain. This man did what Jesus told him before he could see what would come of it. He went to Siloam, washed, and came back seeing.
When we hear God’s Word, we must answer. We must do what He tells us, even when we cannot see the end result.
“He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.” —John 9:7
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