Let me tell you a story… A young man grows up and decides that he wants to have a family. He takes for himself a wife and has children. Right away, he gets thrown into prison to serve a life sentence. His wife moves on and his children grow up. Fast forward 20 years later, and he has not seen or heard from his children once. Though he has physical eyes to see, he has been living in blindness for the past 20 years.
We hear many cases of people who suffer accidents, have birth defects or diseases that cause them to lose their physical eyesight. They are known as being legally blind. Humanly speaking, their blindness is irreversible. However, there are those who have perfect, 2020 vision – yet they are spiritually BLIND.
Please, allow me to say it again. Many have physical eyes to see their surroundings, however, all they see is misery. What do you call this? My friend, this is blindness! The worst blindness is not physical, it is indeed spiritual. Because those who are spiritually blind are not able to see their reality!
“Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.”
(John 9:1)
There was a man, blind from birth, who was begging for coins. When Jesus saw him, what did He do? Did He give him more coins like everyone else? No! He spat on the dirt, made a clay, passed it on the eyes of the blind man and told him to go to the Pool of Siloam (also known as Sent) to wash his face, that he may see.
“When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.”
(John 9:6,7)
In other words, He awoke the faith of the blind man and gave him the necessary tools he needed to make that irreversible situation, reversible.
Examine your life, in what area of your life have you been blinded? In what area of your life are you seeing misery instead of prosperity? What seems to be irreversible for you? Know that this case IS reversible by your faith. Make no mistake, what healed the blind man was not the mud formed by the spit of our Lord Jesus, nor was it the water of the Pool of Siloam… What healed him was the faith he showed through his obedience.
May the God of the Bible bless you
Bishop Joshua Fonseca
